Bait and Switch, by Barbara Ehrenreich, follows a woman's life who lives undercover as a member of the middle class. Throughout the process, the author, who goes by another name not yet stated, searches for jobs in every place that she can, and arranges for her daily interviews. While being undercover, Ehrenreich learns how that for, "normal" people, losing a job, means entering a painful world causing psychological damage. Ehrenreich then states that as an undercover middle class woman, she has no possibilities of going into poverty or being rejected. Whether or not this is true or not, we will only come to know as the reading continues.
Tone: Informative
Logical Appeal: "In 1993, the Myers-Briggs test was administered to three million Americans; eighty-nine of the Fortune top 100 companies use it to help slot their white-collar employees into the appropriate places in the hierarchy."
Page: 32
Imagery: "She asks me to think of two overlapping circles. One circle is me, the other is 'the world of work,' and the overlapping area is 'the ideal position for you.'"
Pages: 22-23
Question: Why does Ehrenreich go undercover for the writing of her books?
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I believe Ehrenreich goes undercover for her books because it makes the topic more interesting. People are probably interested in how and why the white collar class seems to be losing their jobs. By going undercover the book is not just filled with a bunch of statistics and other people's encounters. Ehrenreich can actually give her own experience and the audience can get a feel of what she went through.
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