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Article: White-collar blues: Barbara Ehrenreich in the corporate quicksand.(Book Review)
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- Columbia Journalism Review
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- September 1, 2005
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BAIT AND SWITCH: THE (FUTILE) PURSUIT OF THE AMERICAN DREAM by Barbara Ehrenreich Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt 256 pp., $23
In 1867, E.L. Godkin published an essay in North American Review trying to explain why the United States lacked the "intense class feeling" of European nations. Godkin, editor of the then-fledgling Nation magazine, might have been surprised by the past year in American journalism, which saw The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times each devote a series to the problem of class in America today. While each series had its strengths, each was bedeviled by a vague definition of class. What, after all, is class? Is it ...