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Article: Barbara Ehrenreich: Exposing dirty secrets of white-collar unemployment.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- November 2, 2005
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Byline: Connie Lauerman
Nov. 2--In the last few years, social critic and investigative journalist Barbara Ehrenreich worked for a time at poverty-level wages scrubbing floors and waiting tables and temporarily joined the thousands of white-collar unemployed desperately trying to find jobs.
It was all in the name of going "undercover," a technique used by muckrakers of old to expose the abuses of business and political corruption.
Ehrenreich focuses on the cracks in the American Dream.
In her newest book, "Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream" (Metropolitan Books, $24), she chronicles the "shadowy world" of the ...