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Title: Barbara, your contempt is showing
Review: I love NICKELED AND DIMED because I believe in Ms. Ehrenreich's compassion for the waitresses and hotel maids among whom she posed and about whom she wrote. Reading BAIT AND SWITCH has been an entirely different experience for me. I sense that she has contempt for white-collar workers who have dared to reach for the American Dream and fallen out of the workforce, and who face foreclosure on their homes, forfeiture of their children's college plans, and the inability to pay their medical bills.The book's exposition of the predatory "transition industry"--a profession largely driven by glib and facile laid-off white-collar workers--is very valuable, but I shudder at her sarcastic and sometimes cruel evaluations of the people who are vulnerable to the predators.
