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Friday, Oct. 7. “Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream.” Barbara Ehrenreich, who lived the life of a low-wage worker in “Nickel and Dimed,” discusses her newest book, an exploration of the white-collar world of career coaching and networking events. 7 p.m. First Parish Church, 3 Church...
...Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London springs to mind, but, as Wynhausen acknowledges, this compelling inside account has a more recent precursor. In 1998, American journalist Barbara Ehrenreich set off for low-wage America, posing as a housewife newly returned to work and taking whatever unskilled jobs she could get for her best-seller, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. Inspired to try the same thing in Australia, Wynhausen took a year off work, invented a c.v. and started knocking on doors...
...book Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich went undercover to do a series of low-wage jobs on the theory that the best way to write about life at $6 an hour is to live it. If only Ehrenreich had pitched the idea to TLC. Instead, the network produced the more capitalist-friendly job-switch series Now Who's Boss? (Mondays, 10 p.m. E.T.), in which CEOs do drudge work at their own companies, critiqued by their employees. For Tisch, flipping omelets and checking in customers was not just educational but good advertising as well. "We're not as large...
...fear of layoffs, the need to laugh at the boss's jokes--because they ultimately hold the power. (It's as if the players on Survivor had the power to fire Jeff Probst.) In a perfect world, Now Who's Boss? might have made its Warbuckses go undercover Ehrenreich-style and live on the wages they pay. Instead, it answers its own title's question: The boss is the boss, even when bumbling a drink order or elbow deep in cleanser, and don't you forget it. At the end of one episode, a California Pizza Kitchen host asks company...
...Though Ehrenreich says he will remain at the office for at least a couple more years, he is still trying to determine the terms of service for the ombudsperson position and what types of University employees should be appointed...