NEW YORK - It's the ultimate travel bait and switch. You book a ticket on a non-stop flight but the airline cancels it a few weeks later, leaving a computer to automatically rebook you. Your new itinerary includes a layover, turning a five-hour trip into an eight-hour journey.
NEW YORK - It's the ultimate travel bait and switch. You book a ticket on a nonstop flight but the airline cancels it a few weeks later, leaving a computer to automatically rebook you. Your new itinerary includes a layover, turning a five-hour trip into an eight-hour journey.
At hand is a book that is a classic - and blatantly egregious - instance of a publisher pulling a bait-and- switch sting on an unwary reader. Judging from the title, one would assume it deals with the famed food maven and her husband. Well, one would be wrong: Julia Child is but a bit player in the volume, which is essentially the story of her Office of Strategic Services (OSS) colleague and longtime friend Jane Foster, a California socialite whose appetite for far-left causes led her to the fringes of - if not total immersion into - Soviet espionage.
Barbara Ehrenreich has been a well known and respected writer for years, with her biting, witty critiques of politics and economics in such books as "The Worst Years of Our Lives" and "Fear of Falling." Five years ago, she suddenly leaped onto the bestseller lists with "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America," in which she attempted to make a living on minimum wage jobs, including waiting tables at a chain restaurant in Key West. Her new book, "Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream," uses a similar technique on a different sector of the American economy: unemployed professionals. In the book, Ehrenreich becomes a job seeker in the corporate world. She networks. She posts her resume online. She undergoes career coaching and personality tests. But sh...
Don't get your back up: Nobody's happy about religious fanatics from other parts of the world killing Americans. I'm not even happy about religious fanatics from this part of the world who are responsible for killing thousands of Iraqis. For a while at PNC Park, when they sang "God Bless America" before Sunday games, the announcer informed us that the singing of the song was to honor the 9/11 dead. I was always offended by that, as if everyone who had died since didn't matter. They've since added soldiers fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. It's good to know there are some other corpses somewhere that actually matter, too. Am I the only one who feels sorry for the terrorists? Not really, but kinda. I think they're the victims of the oldest scam in the book, the old bait-and-switch. They'r...
A health-care system reform plan gaining momentum in Washington, D.C., might be called a "public option," but it is neither public- minded nor much of an option, former Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt said Thursday. Leavitt, former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, equates the proposal to fix the nation's medical system to the oldest bait-and-switch trick in the book: the Trojan horse. The health-care reform strategy may appear to have choice as its centerpiece, Leavitt said, but embracing the idea is embracing socialized medicine that Americans have tried to avoid at all costs.
BAIT AND SWITCH The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream BARBARA EHRENREICH
...After almost a dozen tough-minded books that attracted a cult following, she hit it big wi...
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Q Your latest book explores themes that you touched upon in the books "Nickel and Dimed" and "Bait and Switch.
For [Barbara Ehrenreich] the increase in white-collar unemployment, the downsizing, the off-shoring of previously "safe" jobs all add up to a shattering of a social contract understood by generations of Americans. That is, work hard, stay loyal to the company and be rewarded with security. A generation ago, such employer monogamy was the norm. Today, with the exception of a few niches in the public sector, folks are impressed if you've stuck with the same job for five years. The irony here is palpable, or at least it should be. Where dissident intellectuals once lamented the conformist oppression meted out and endured by incarnations of "the man in the gray flannel suit," now, it seems they'd welcome his return home with a path of lotuses. In her conclusion, Ehrenreich makes a rathe...
BAIT AND SWITCH by Barbara Ehrenreich. New York: Henry... Rather, the book is a politicized job-seeker's diary. As part of he...
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