Barbara Eirenreich speaks. We listen. It’s strangely familiar…
Pulling back the curtain on the paradigm of employment and jobseeking in white collar America, even in 2005 when this interview took place, reveals some hard truths about how we are preparing our graduates for (futiley) pursuing their Dream of a great career. Although some issues such as health care being tied to employment are slightly different here in Canada, the way that jobseekers and corporations as job creators fill their respective roles is much the same.
The corporations should not have the power they have over our economy because we don’t have any access to them….They are completely undemocratic institutions but they have all this power over us both as consumers and as employees.