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Bait and Switch 2005

Arbeidsmobiliteit, Mobilité descendante (Sciences sociales), White collar workers, Cols blancs

"Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed explored the lives of low-wage workers. Now, in Bait and Switch, she enters another hidden realm of the economy: the shadowy world of the white-collar unemployed."

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About Barbara Ehrenreich · 1941

"Barbara Ehrenreich is an American author and political activist who describes herself as "a myth buster by trade", and has been called "a veteran muckraker" by The New Yorker. During the 1980s and early 1990s she was a prominent figure in the Democratic Socialists of America." - Wikipedia

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