Ebook , by Barbara Ehrenreich
Learning is a process that will be undertaken by all individuals in every age. In this instance, we have always guides that ought to be collected and read. , By Barbara Ehrenreich is one of the books that we always advise for you in finding out. This is the means exactly how you discover related to the topic. When you have the visibility of the books, you should see just how this book is really advised.
, by Barbara Ehrenreich
Ebook , by Barbara Ehrenreich
Do you do any of these points that will assist you to be an outstanding personality? Do you do some parts of those? Lots of people have determination to be an excellent individual in all condition. Minimal condition as well as circumstance doesn't imply that it's limited to do something much better. When you wish to decide to do something better, it is needed for you to take , By Barbara Ehrenreich for your assistance.
Every word to utter from the writer entails the component of this life. The writer actually shows how the basic words can optimize just how the impact of this publication is uttered directly for the readers. Also you have actually found out about the content of , By Barbara Ehrenreich so much, you could easily do it for your better link. In delivering the presence of guide principle, you can find out the boo site here.
In reading , By Barbara Ehrenreich, now you might not also do traditionally. In this modern era, gadget and computer system will certainly aid you a lot. This is the moment for you to open up the device and remain in this site. It is the appropriate doing. You could see the link to download this , By Barbara Ehrenreich here, can't you? Simply click the link and negotiate to download it. You can reach buy guide , By Barbara Ehrenreich by online as well as all set to download. It is very various with the typical means by gong to guide shop around your city.
The publications , By Barbara Ehrenreich, from easy to challenging one will be a really useful operates that you can take to change your life. It will not give you unfavorable statement unless you don't obtain the meaning. This is undoubtedly to do in reviewing a publication to overcome the significance. Commonly, this publication entitled , By Barbara Ehrenreich is read because you actually like this type of publication. So, you can get simpler to comprehend the perception and also definition. Once longer to consistently keep in mind is by reviewing this book , By Barbara Ehrenreich, you can fulfil hat your inquisitiveness start by finishing this reading book.
Product details
File Size: 400 KB
Print Length: 272 pages
Publisher: Metropolitan Books; 1st edition (July 25, 2006)
Publication Date: July 25, 2006
Sold by: Macmillan
Language: English
ASIN: B003G83UL4
Text-to-Speech:
Enabled
P.when("jQuery", "a-popover", "ready").execute(function ($, popover) {
var $ttsPopover = $('#ttsPop');
popover.create($ttsPopover, {
"closeButton": "false",
"position": "triggerBottom",
"width": "256",
"popoverLabel": "Text-to-Speech Popover",
"closeButtonLabel": "Text-to-Speech Close Popover",
"content": '
});
});
X-Ray:
Not Enabled
P.when("jQuery", "a-popover", "ready").execute(function ($, popover) {
var $xrayPopover = $('#xrayPop_83980636438811E9AFFEF028AFDF5BF9');
popover.create($xrayPopover, {
"closeButton": "false",
"position": "triggerBottom",
"width": "256",
"popoverLabel": "X-Ray Popover ",
"closeButtonLabel": "X-Ray Close Popover",
"content": '
});
});
Word Wise: Enabled
Lending: Not Enabled
Screen Reader:
Supported
P.when("jQuery", "a-popover", "ready").execute(function ($, popover) {
var $screenReaderPopover = $('#screenReaderPopover');
popover.create($screenReaderPopover, {
"position": "triggerBottom",
"width": "500",
"content": '
"popoverLabel": "The text of this e-book can be read by popular screen readers. Descriptive text for images (known as “ALT textâ€) can be read using the Kindle for PC app if the publisher has included it. If this e-book contains other types of non-text content (for example, some charts and math equations), that content will not currently be read by screen readers.",
"closeButtonLabel": "Screen Reader Close Popover"
});
});
Enhanced Typesetting:
Enabled
P.when("jQuery", "a-popover", "ready").execute(function ($, popover) {
var $typesettingPopover = $('#typesettingPopover');
popover.create($typesettingPopover, {
"position": "triggerBottom",
"width": "256",
"content": '
"popoverLabel": "Enhanced Typesetting Popover",
"closeButtonLabel": "Enhanced Typesetting Close Popover"
});
});
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#92,911 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
This book resonated with me, bringing back some now-funny, then-painful memories from years ago, looking for work with a bachelor's liberal art degree. OUCH! At times surreal but not far from the truth, it exposes the "get a job" industry.Perhaps a bit of an exageration but alot of truth in this book.Recommended to those seeking employment- it will make you feel less alone!
In Bait and Switch the author does for middle class professionals what she did for blue collar workers in Nickel and Dimmed. Although not a direct sequel to Nickel and Dimmed, if you had read Dimmed, the concept behind Bait and Switch will be familiar.Basically, in case you don’t know, Barbara Ehrerich is an academic, freelance writer, journalist and something of a left-wing activist. In Nickel and Dimmed she went undercover to discover how it is to live and work as a low-wage manual worker. In Bait and Switch her original idea was to find a managerial corporate job. Despite trying to do so for almost a year, she didn’t succeed in getting one, so instead she wrote a book about unemployed middle class professionals (I will call them “White Collarsâ€) and how they are (not) coping with the process of job searching. Before I continue, I have to add that although I was never a corporate manager, I did work in the corporate sector. It was my intention to land a good job with a corporation and I have a couple of White Collars in my family who went through periods of unemployment, multiple instances of job loss and everything that comes with it. I can vouch to you from personal experience and from listening to stories coming from people whom I trust that what the author describes in this book is absolutely true. This is especially the case when it comes to those useless, infuriating personality tests, which I had to take at almost every job where I have applied. (I will get to that part later.)First, a word has to be said about the White Collars that you are going to meet in the book. When it comes to people from the working class, there is a stereotype that they are poor because they are lazy, stupid, spend all their savings on alcohol and drugs, drop out of school too early, have teenage pregnancies, etc. In other words, the stereotype is that they have no one to blame but themselves.This is not the place to discuss whether there is any truth in the stereotypes. I suggest reading Nickel and Dimmed for that. What I will say however is that the unemployed White Collars certainly do not fall under that stereotype. Sure, lazy, stupid, irresponsible White Collars do exist. Such individuals do exist at every level of society, from the poorest to the richest and passing through all the levels in the middle. However, you will not encounter them in this book. White Collars are almost all intelligent, hardworking, dedicated, down-to-earth people who care about the success of their employer and are willing to put in long hours even at the expense of their family and personal life. Many of them had a stellar record before being fired and there were absolutely no disciplinary problems with them.So why were they fired? In the past, if you managed to climb the corporate ladder to the position of a manager, you were almost certain to keep it until retirement. Then, in the past generation or so, corporate mentality changed. The book does not get much into discussion why this change took place, but the fact is that it did and White Collars started losing their jobs in huge numbers simply because of corporate greed. Because of their high salaries, no matter their loyalty, dedication, competence and hard work, they started being fired, sometimes one at a time, sometimes in massive layoffs. In one company where I worked a couple of years ago, close to one hundred managers lost their job due to “restructuring†within a single week. The company was making good profits at that time, so the cuts were not necessary to stave off bankruptcy. So why were they all fired? Were all one hundred of them incompetent or something?Once they lose their job, White Collars tend to have considerable savings, at least at the beginning. Of course, they want to find new employment as soon as possible in order to reclaim lost income and social prestige. This combination of money and desperation attracts sharks in the form or career counsellors. The problem with career counsellors is that this is an industry that is not regulated in any way. Anyone can declare himself one. You and I could become career counsellors even today had we wanted to.The author recounts her experiences with a number of them. No doubt some career counsellors are nothing more than charlatans preying on the gullible, but the ones we meet in the book are well meaning. The problem here is that they are out of touch with the realities of job searching. Their advice is useless at best, and harmful at worst. I especially recommend the part when the author talks about Patrick and the group sessions that he runs. These sessions resemble more cult meetings designed to flatter his ego rather than genuine job searching workshops. When the author finally confronts him in private, it is by far one of the best scenes in the book. Had it been fiction, I would applaud the author for writing one of the most brilliant scenes in literature’s history. Patrick comes out at as a self-absorbed, pathetic individual who does the very opposite of what he preaches and yet who sees no fault with himself.Patrick is just one example. Of all the career counsellors in the book, he is by far the worst (and the most interesting), but the others are hardly better. There is this one guy using big Wizard of Oz dolls for coaching (yes, you read that right) or a hyperactive woman who is infuriatingly excited about every single thing and who charges $200 per session, although her advice turns out to be flat wrong.It reads like a comedy, but keep in mind that these counsellors are supposedly there to help people find jobs. People come to them for help, spend a lot of money they cannot afford to spend and in return they get advice of dubious quality. Many of these counsellors are former professionals who lost their job in some way and now run their business from their kitchen. They are self-employed people in whose interest it is to milk their customers for as much as possible, because otherwise they too will end up without any money.And this is just about the career counsellors. The author also talks extensively about such job searching techniques as networking events, sending CVs online or personality tests. Personality tests are nowadays a very big thing. In my job searching I had to fill out a lot of them, some even the very ones mentioned in this book. You would think that they were designed by psychologists from Harvard or some other experts, but in reality they were created by amateurs with little or no formal schooling in psychology. Serious psychologists scowl at these tests, but corporations use them all the time without asking themselves if the tests are indeed accurate.As I said, the author had spent close to a year searching for a job. She did everything that the counsellors told her to do, she attended many networking events, sent hundreds of CVs, filled out dozens of personality tests and spent hours each day looking for a job. She still failed. All this time she had the option of stopping and going back to her real life. From what I understand, she also has a working spouse who supported her during this time, so money was not a big problem. Even though it was a game of sorts to her, she still experienced acute stress, feelings of frustration, anger at the world, anger at herself, depression and self-loathing. She was told by others (especially career counsellors) that it was her fault that she could not find a job, so she felt incompetent. She was also told to lie shamelessly and ruthlessly manipulate other people to land a job, and she did do it. Being an honest person with strong values and dedication to the truth, she was loathe to do it.If she, a person who had the option of walking away from it all at any moment, felt this way, imagine how White Collars feel. Unlike her, they are not working undercover to write a book. They do not have the option of going back to their real life because what they are living through is their real life.What happens to them in the end? A few succeed and find a good job, but most last roughly a year. Then their savings run out, as does their resilience. The stories presented in the book are harrowing. Some try some sort of one-person business, like opening a freelance consultancy, selling real estate or this sort of thing. Most fail. Some move back with their parents. Sometimes it is the parents who move in with the children. Some end up on the street. Many find low paying blue collar jobs. They say to themselves that this is just temporary, but often a longer period of unemployment (or working at minimum wage job) means never again being hired for a good job.Even those who do land a good job do not feel safe. Some are hired on contract. This means that they are often paid less than their non-contract counterparts and once the contract runs out, they are let go. Some get hired permanently, but “permanently†is a relative term because many of them get fired quickly for no fault of their own. (At least no fault that they can understand and no explanation is ever given to them.)What kind of life is that? And it is not only the unemployed who suffer. The employed see their colleagues getting fired all around them and they can feel the executioner’s axe hanging over their head. They are told implicitly and sometimes explicitly not to ask for raises or any other form of recognition because that will make them more likely to get fired down the road. But even if they keep their head low, quite often they are still fired. They soon learn the hard way that loyalty, competence and hard work mean nothing to their bosses. They can be, and often are, fired at any moment without any explanation.The most natural thing to do in these kind of circumstances would be to slacken and do as little as possible. After all, if my loyalty and hard work are not rewarded in any way and cannot even at the very least guarantee me job security, then the most logical thing to do would be to relax, kick back and do as little as possible. Why would I give my time, energy and loyalty to someone who obviously thinks nothing of me?The problem is that if they do that and get caught, and most no doubt would, they will be fired too. So the White Collars have to work hard all the while they know that they are giving their heart and soul to someone who thinks nothing of them. Of course, they can do little to complain. With so many unemployed White Collars out there desperate for a job, firing an employee, even a high ranking manager, and finding a replacement is not a problem at all.The feelings of anger, bitterness, depression and hopelessness run deep. These are not good feelings. The psychological damage quickly accumulates and in many cases will stay for the rest of the life.This book was researched and written ten years ago. That was before the 2008 banking crisis. Things got only worse since then. The new austerity measures adopted around the world are causing even more devastation among White Collars. And it is no longer only corporate White Collars. Jobs and salaries are being slashed all across the board. Schools, universities, medias, even government functionaries, all are being targeted. The human suffering and social damage thus created is immense. If this does not stop and start reversing, eventually there will be a terrible price to pay.
In the sequel to Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich looks at the world of the white-collar unemployed or"in transition" "seekers". While it's always interesting to look at the other side, this book was closer to homefor me with the notions of downward mobility and overqualification. While I am still a priest, I am onindefinite leave due to behavioral issues. Like those in the book, I "did everything right" but the problemsare also of my own making, as Alan Simpson said at the Bush funeral. I looked at the handicapped anda number of small businesses, eventually substitute teaching. It's low paying and insurance has to comefrom elsewhere, so in relating to the teachers I need my own self-confidence to be their equal. But I dohave the passion, if not for elementary school at least for the middle and high school. Most of the effortis on crowd control, but the few occasions where I can engage the material are great.It's important for the reader to know that Ehrenreich isn't just an investigative reporter doing all theseodd jobs. She's an actual Marxist, not just socialist like Bernie and Ocasio-Cortez but actually com symp,more like the Cockburns. If this characterization is not correct she should clarify it but that's my understanding and nothing in her books has really contradicted it. So she intends these two books as an overarching critique of capitalism. What the ranks of the unemployed and underemployed blue-collar and white-collar workers will do Idon't know, but she intends it as a big picture call to action. Maybe she's just talking about more incrementalmeasures like unionizing and advocating for various safety nets, but there's more to it than that.While I obviously don't go for the Marxist solution, the book is useful for other purposes. There's a strongsatirical critique of the approach of most job coaches, at least the ones she found. I totally agree with theoveruse of the Myers-Briggs and Enneagram by many as overrated in its expected benefits. And there's acritique of the corporate culture of being nice and getting along over creativity. This is the case withconservatives as well as leftists. These days you just don't criticize feminism or LGBT without expectingproblems. Ehrenreich is a nonbeliever and also satirizes the "Christian businessmen" groups that advertisefor the unemployed, largely Southern evangelicals apparently. I don't doubt that the experiences wereawkward, but I'm skeptical that the reporting wasn't interpreted through a fairly strong personal bias.I also have to say there's a pretty big ego at work here. It's like, wow I'm doing all this humble stuffbut I'm such a smart and amazing writer. She's a reasonably good writer, but so are most people whowrite for the big papers and journals like the Atlantic, etc. At that level it's not so much writing abilitythat distinguishes you, but content. The reader will have to judge that.
I recommend all of Barbara Ehrenreich's books. I bought them here on Amazon, and got good prices for them, but I recommend them because she is one of the most important non-fiction writers and voices on the sociopolitical climate in the United States today. She puts into words the problems that the average working class man and woman face, the problems that the middle class face, and the problem of the divide between those that have great wealth, and the vast majority of the population that does not. Ehrenreich will make you think, and while doing so, she will make you laugh, so what you are reading is not entirely depressing. She has an excellent sarcastic sense of humor, and she is also incredibly brilliant. She has been writing these types of books since the 1970's, and if you have not checked out her other works, like NIckle and Dimed, please do so. You will not be disappointed.
, by Barbara Ehrenreich PDF
, by Barbara Ehrenreich EPub
, by Barbara Ehrenreich Doc
, by Barbara Ehrenreich iBooks
, by Barbara Ehrenreich rtf
, by Barbara Ehrenreich Mobipocket
, by Barbara Ehrenreich Kindle
0 komentar:
Posting Komentar