Bait-and-switch is a form of fraud, most commonly used in retail sales but also applicable to other contexts. First, customers are "baited" by advertising for a product or service at a low price; second, the customers discover that the advertised good is not available and are "switched" to a costlier product.

Function[link]

The goal of the bait-and-switch is to persuade buyers to purchase the substitute goods as a means of avoiding disappointment over not getting the bait, or as a way to recover sunk costs expended to try to obtain the bait. It suggests that the seller will not show the original product or service advertised but instead will demonstrate a more expensive product or a similar product with a higher margin.

Legality[link]

In the United States, courts have held that the purveyor using a bait-and-switch operation may be subject to a lawsuit by customers for false advertising, and can be sued for trademark infringement by competing manufacturers, retailers, and others who profit from the sale of the product used as bait. However, no cause of action will exist if the purveyor is capable of actually selling the goods advertised, but aggressively pushes a competing product.

Likewise, advertising a sale while intending to stock a limited amount of, and thereby sell out, a loss-leading item advertised is legal in the United States. The purveyor can escape liability if they make clear in their advertisements that quantities of items for which a sale is offered are limited, or by offering a rain check on sold-out items.

In England and Wales it is banned under the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008. Breaking this law can result in a criminal prosecution, an unlimited fine and two years in jail.

Non-retail use[link]

• Employers are known to use bait-and-switch tactics by advertising a job opening in a way that gives a misleading impression of likely working conditions or compensation packages.
• Bait-and-switch tactics are frequently used in airline and air travel advertising.^[1]
• Hotels widely use the form of bait-and-switch tactics known as 'resort fees'. They first attract customers by advertising the lower price (which appears on all promotional materials and rate comparison engines), and charge customers the mandatory "resort fee" when they arrive for check-in. ^[2]
• Software companies that initially offer software products or services for free (often under a "Beta" moniker) and at a later point make parts or all of the functionality available only in a paid product without communicating that intention from the start are said to employ bait-and-switch tactics.
• Online dating sites have been known to post fake profiles as a way of enticing people to join; in some cases, employees of the site's parent company send messages via a sockpuppet in order to encourage non-paying users to upgrade so they can message back.
• Telecommunications companies often offer services at an introductory price that consumers may find reasonable, then after the introductory period escalate the price as much as 100% depending on the service. Some telecommunication companies also include a contract period in which the consumer is forced to pay the escalated price.
• Colleges and Universities often use front-loading of grants to reduce the out-of-pocket cost during the first year, replacing grants with loans in subsequent years.
• Real Estate Brokers and Agents often advertise themselves as buyer agents without disclosing that they may not be able to provide that service if they work for a brokerage that lists homes and represents home sellers.
• Contractors will offer service estimates and then add on extra fees and costs once the job has begun.

Politics[link]

In lawmaking, "caption bills" that propose minor changes in law with simplistic titles (the bait) are introduced to the legislature with the ultimate objective of substantially changing the wording (the switch) at a later date in order to try to smooth the passage of a controversial or major amendment. Rule changes are also proposed (the bait) to meet legal requirements for public notice and mandated public hearings, then different rules are proposed at a final meeting (the switch), thus bypassing the objective of public notice and public discussion on the actual rules voted upon. While legal, the political objective is to get legislation or rules passed without anticipated negative community review.

See also[link]

• AIDA
• Choice architecture
• Contract of sale
• Cross-selling
• Door-in-the-face technique
• Foot-in-the-door technique
• List of marketing topics
• Low-ball
• Marketing
• Permission marketing
• Promotion
• Sales
• Selling technique
• Rickrolling
• Teaser rate
• Trojan horse (business)
• Up-selling
• Value added selling

References[link]

External links[link]

Look up bait-and-switch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

• Guides against "bait" advertising from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
• Google's bait and switch deception exposed at hearing, Forbes
• Competition Bureau Canada

Barbara Ehrenreich
Born	(1941-08-26) August 26, 1941 (age 70) Butte, Montana
Occupation	social critic, journalist, author, activist
Genres	nonfiction, investigative journalism

Barbara Ehrenreich ( /ˈɛrɨnraɪk/;^[1]) born August 26, 1941, Butte, Montana is an American feminist, democratic socialist, and political activist who describes herself as "a myth buster by trade",^[2] and has been called "a veteran muckraker" by The New Yorker.^[3] During the 1980s and early 1990s she was a prominent figure in the Democratic Socialists of America. She is a widely-read and award-winning columnist and essayist, and author of 21 books.

Early life[link]

Ehrenreich was born Barbara Alexander to Isabelle Oxley and Ben Howes Alexander in Butte, Montana, which she describes as then being "a bustling, brawling, blue collar mining town".^[4] In an interview on C-SPAN, she characterized her parents as "strong union people" with two family rules: "never cross a picket line and never vote Republican".^[2] In a talk she gave in 1999, Ehrenreich called herself a "fourth-generation atheist".^[5]

"As a little girl", she told the New York Times in 1993, "I would go to school and have to decide if my parents were the evil people they were talking about, part of the Red Menace we read about in the Weekly Reader. Just because my mother was a liberal Democrat who would always talk about racial injustice." ^[6] Her father was a copper miner who went to the Montana State School of Mines (now part of the University of Montana), and then to Carnegie Mellon University. He eventually became a senior executive at the Gillette Corporation. Her parents later divorced.

Ehrenreich studied chemistry at Reed College, graduating in 1963. Her senior thesis was entitled Electrochemical oscillations of the silicon anode. In 1968, she received a Ph.D in cellular immunology from Rockefeller University.^[7]

In 1970, Ehrenreich gave birth to her daughter Rosa in a public clinic in New York. "I was the only white patient at the clinic", she told the Globe and Mail newspaper in 1987. "They induced my labor because it was late in the evening and the doctor wanted to go home. I was enraged. The experience made me a feminist." ^[8]

Career[link]

After completing her doctorate, Ehrenreich did not pursue a career in science. Instead, she worked first as an analyst, with the Bureau of the Budget in New York City and the Health Policy Advisory Center, and later as an assistant professor at the State University of New York. In 1972, Ehrenreich began co-teaching a course on women and health with feminist journalist and academic Deirdre English. Through the rest of the seventies, Ehrenreich worked mostly in health-related research, advocacy and activism, including co-writing, with English, several feminist books and pamphlets on the history and politics of women's health. During this period, she began speaking frequently at conferences staged by women's health centers and women's groups, universities, and the United States government. She also spoke regularly about socialist feminism and feminism in general.^[9]

Throughout her career, Ehrenreich has worked as a freelance writer, and she is best known for her non-fiction reportage, book reviews and social commentary. Her reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, The Atlantic Monthly, Mother Jones, The Nation, The New Republic, the Los Angeles Times Book Review supplement, Vogue, Salon.com, TV Guide, Mirabella and American Film. Her essays, op-eds and feature articles have appeared in Harper's Magazine, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Time, The Wall Street Journal, Life, Mother Jones, Ms., The Nation, The New Republic, the New Statesman, In These Times, The Progressive, Working Woman, and Z magazine.^[9]

Ehrenreich is perhaps best known for her 2001 book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. A memoir of Ehrenreich's three month experiment surviving on minimum wage as a waitress, hotel maid, house cleaner, nursing-home aide, and Wal-Mart clerk, it was described by Newsweek magazine as "jarring" and "full of riveting grit",^[10] and by The New Yorker as an "exposé" putting "human flesh on the bones of such abstractions as "living wage" and "affordable housing".^[11]

Ehrenreich has served as founder, advisor or board member to a number of organizations including the U.S. National Women's Health Network, the National Abortion Rights Action League, the National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse, the Nationwide Women's Program of the American Friends Service Committee, the Brooklyn-based Association for Union Democracy, political activist Robert Boehm's Boehm Foundation, the anti-poverty group Women's Committee of 100, the National Writers Union, The Progressive magazine's Progressive Media Project, the Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) advisory committee on women in the media, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, the Center for Popular Economics, and the Campaign for America's Future.^[9]

Between 1979 and 1981, she served as an adjunct associate professor at New York University and as a visiting professor at the University of Missouri at Columbia and at Sangamon State University. She lectured at the University of California at Santa Barbara, was a writer-in-residence at Ohio State University, Wayne Morse chair at the University of Oregon, a teaching fellow at the graduate school of journalism at the University of California at Berkeley. She has been a fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Institute for Policy Studies, and the New York-based Society of American Historians.^[9]

In 2006, Ehrenreich founded United Professionals, an organization described as "a nonprofit, non-partisan membership organization for white-collar workers, regardless of profession or employment status. We reach out to all unemployed, underemployed, and anxiously employed workers — people who bought the American dream that education and credentials could lead to a secure middle class life, but now find their lives disrupted by forces beyond their control."^[12]

Ehrenreich is currently an honorary co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America. She also serves on the NORML Board of Directors, the Institute for Policy Studies Board of Trustees and the Editorial Board of The Nation. She has served on the editorial boards of Social Policy, Ms., Mother Jones, Seven Days, Lear's, The New Press, and Culturefront, and as a contributing editor to Harper's.^[9]

Awards[link]

In 1980, Ehrenreich shared the National Magazine Award for excellence in reporting with colleagues at Mother Jones magazine ^[13] for the cover story The Corporate Crime of the Century,^[14] about "what happens after the U.S. government forces a dangerous drug, pesticide or other product off the domestic market, then the manufacturer sells that same product, frequently with the direct support of the State Department, throughout the rest of the world".^[15]

In 1998, she was named "Humanist of the Year" by the American Humanist Association.^[16]

In 2000, she received the Sidney Hillman Award for journalism for the Harper's article "Nickel and Dimed", which was later published as a chapter in her book of the same title.^[17]

In 2002, she won a National Magazine Award for her essay "Welcome to Cancerland: A mammogram leads to a cult of pink kitsch", which describes Ehrenreich's own experience of being diagnosed with breast cancer, and describes what she calls the "breast cancer cult", which "serves as an accomplice in global poisoning -- normalizing cancer, prettying it up, even presenting it, perversely, as a positive and enviable experience".^[18][19]

In 2004, she received the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship,^[20] awarded jointly by the Puffin Foundation of New Jersey and The Nation Institute to an American who challenges the status quo "through distinctive, courageous, imaginative, socially responsible work of significance".^[21]

In 2007, she received the "Freedom from Want" Medal, awarded by the Roosevelt Institute in celebration of "those whose life's work embodies FDR's Four Freedoms".^[22]

Ehrenreich has received a Ford Foundation award for humanistic perspectives on contemporary society (1982), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1987–88) and a grant for research and writing from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (1995). She has received honorary degrees from Reed College, the State University of New York at Old Westbury, the College of Wooster in Ohio, John Jay College, UMass-Lowell and La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia.^[14]

Personal life and family[link]

Ehrenreich has one brother, Benjamin Jr., and one sister, Diane.

When Ehrenreich was 35, according to the book Always Too Soon: Voices of Support for Those Who Have Lost Both Parents, her mother died "from a likely suicide".^[23] Her father died years later from Alzheimer's disease.^[23]

She has been married and divorced twice. She met her first husband, John Ehrenreich, during an anti-war activism campaign in New York City, and they married in 1966. He is a clinical psychologist,^[24] and they co-wrote several books about health policy and labor issues before divorcing in 1977. In 1983 she married Gary Stevenson, a union organizer for the Teamsters.^[6] She divorced Stevenson in 1993.^[9]

Ehrenreich has two children. Rosa (now Rosa Brooks), born in 1970, was named after Rosa Parks and Polish-German Marxist Rosa Luxemburg, as well as a great-grandmother.^[8] She is a Virginia-based columnist. Benjamin was born in 1972 and is a journalist and novelist in Los Angeles.

Filling in for a vacationing Thomas Friedman as a columnist with the New York Times in 2004, Ehrenreich wrote about how, in the fight for women's reproductive rights, "it's the women who shrink from acknowledging their own abortions who really irk me", and said that she herself "had two abortions during my all-too-fertile years".^[25] In her 1990 book of essays The Worst Years of Our Lives, she wrote that "the one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks".^[26]

Ehrenreich was diagnosed with breast cancer shortly after the release of her book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. This resulted in the award-winning article "Welcome to Cancerland", published in the November 2001 issue of Harper's Magazine. The article would go on to inspire the 2011 documentary Pink Ribbons, Inc..^[27]

In 2000 Ehrenreich endorsed the Presidential campaign of Ralph Nader; in 2004, she urged voters to support John Kerry in the swing states.^[28] In February 2008, Ehrenreich expressed support for Senator Barack Obama in the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign,^[29]

Ehrenreich lives in Florida.^[30]

Books[link]

Ehrenreich at a New York Times discussion

Non-fiction[link]

• The Uptake, Storage, and Intracellular Hydrolysis of Carbohydrates by Macrophages (with Zanvil A. Cohn) (1969)
• Long March, Short Spring: The Student Uprising at Home and Abroad (with John Ehrenreich) (1969)
• The American Health Empire: Power, Profits, and Politics (with John Ehrenreich and Health PAC) (1971)
• Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers (with Deirdre English) (1972)
• Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness (with Deirdre English) (1973)
• For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice to Women (with Deirdre English) (1978)
• Women in the Global Factory (1983)
• Re-Making Love: The Feminization of Sex (with Elizabeth Hess and Gloria Jacobs) (1986)
• The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment (1983)
• The Mean Season (with Fred L. Block, Richard A. Cloward, and Frances Fox Piven) (1987)
• Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class (1989)
• The Worst Years of Our Lives: Irreverent Notes from a Decade of Greed (1990)
• Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War (1997)
• The Snarling Citizen: Essays (1995)
• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America (2001)
• Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy (ed., with Arlie Hochschild) (2003)
• Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream (2005)
• Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy (2007)
• This Land Is Their Land: Reports From a Divided Nation (2008)
• Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America (2009). In the United Kingdom this book is called Smile Or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World 9 January 2010 Guardian/UK

Fiction[link]

• Kipper's Game (1993)

Essays[link]

• In Defense of Talk Shows (1995 [TIME Magazine, December 4, 1995])
• "The New Creationism: Biology Under Attack" The Nation, June 9, 1997.
• "How 'Natural' Is Rape? Despite a Daffy New Theory, It's Not Just a Guy in Touch with His Inner Caveman", Time, January 31, 2000.
• Welcome to Cancerland (2001 National Magazine Award finalist)
• A New Counterterrorism Strategy: Feminism (2005 [AlterNet])
• The Charge: Gynocide investigative journalism about the Dalkon Shield in the third world. Mother Jones ([1])
• Fight for Your Right to Party (2006 [TIME Magazine, December 18, 2006])
• My Unwitting Role in Acts of Torture February 22, 2009, Guardian/UK
• "Is It Now a Crime to Be Poor" August 9, 2009 "NYT"
• Barbara Ehrenreich: Are Women Getting Sadder? Or Are We All Just Getting a Lot More Gullible? October 13, 2009, Guernica
• Smile! You've got cancer January 2, 2010, Guardian/UK
• "Making Sense of La Difference" (1992 ["TIME" Magazine, 1992])

Translations[link]

Dutch:

• Achterkant van de Amerikaanse droom (Nickel and Dimed), 2005
• Gouden Bergen (Bait and Switch), 2006

German:

• Die Herzen der Männer, 1984
• Hexen, Hebammen und Krankenschwestern, 1987
• Gesprengte Fesseln, 1988
• Angst vor dem Absturz, 1994
• Blutrituale, 1999
• Arbeit poor. Unterwegs in der Dienstleistungsgesellschaft, 2001
• Qualifiziert und arbeitslos: Eine Irrfahrt durch die Bewerbungswüste, 2006
• Smile or Die: Wie die Ideologie des positiven Denkens die Welt verdummt, 2010

Finnish:

• Nälkäpalkalla (Nickel and Dimed), 2003
• Petetty keskiluokka (Bait and Switch), 2006

French:

• L'Amérique pauvre: Comment ne pas survivre en travaillant, 2005

Hebrew:

• נשים בקו-הייצור העולמי, 1987.
• כלכלה בגרוש: איך (לא) להצליח באמריקה, 2004.
• האישה הגלובלית: מטפלות, עוזרות ועובדות מין בכלכלה החדשה, 2006.

Italian:

• Riti di sangue, 1998

Japanese:

• われらの生涯の最悪の年 / バーバラ・エーレンライク 著 ; 中村輝子 訳. -- 晶文社, 1992.
• 「中流」という階級 / バーバラ・エーレンライク著 ; 中江桂子訳. -- 晶文社, 1995
• ニッケル・アンド・ダイムド : アメリカ下流社会の現実 / バーバラ・エーレンライク著 ; 曽田和子訳. -- 東洋経済新報社, 2006
• 捨てられるホワイトカラー : 格差社会アメリカで仕事を探すということ / バーバラ・エーレンライク著 ; 曽田和子訳. -- 東洋経済新報社, 2007

Korean:

• 빈곤의 경제 (Nickel and Dimed), 2002

Norwegian:

• Kjøpt og underbetalt : om (ikke) å klare seg i Amerika (Nickel and Dimed), 2003
• Lokket og lurt : på (forgjeves) jakt etter den amerikanske drømmen (Bait and Switch), 2006
• Livets lyse sider (Bright-sided), 2010

Portuguese:

• Ritos de Sangue: Um estudo sobre as origens da guerra, 2000
• Salário de Pobreza: Como (não) sobreviver na América, 2004

Spanish:

• Por cuatro duros: Cómo (no) apañárselas en Estados Unidos, 2003
• Sonríe o muere, 2010
• Por tu propio bien. 150 años de consejos expertos a las mujeres, 2010

Swedish:

• Det manliga hjärtat: revolten mot försörjarrollen, 1984
• Barskrapad: konsten att hanka sig fram, 2002
• Gilla läget: Hur allt gick åt helvete med positivt tänkande, 2010

Thai:

• คำให้การของคนเปื้อนเหงื่อ (Nickel and Dimed), 2006

Traditional Chinese:

• "M型社會白領的新試煉"("Bait and Switch"), Translator: 林淑媛, 時報出版, 2007
• "我在底層的生活:當專欄作家化身為女服務生"("Nickel and Dimed"), Translator: 林家瑄, 左岸文化, 2010

References[link]

1. ^ The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary
2. ^ ^{a b} Lamb, Brian (Interviewer) (18 October 1989). "Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class: Barbara Ehrenreich Interview Transcript". Booknotes (CSPAN). http://www.booknotes.org/Watch/9435-1/Barbara+Ehrenreich.aspx. Retrieved 8 May 2011. 
3. ^ "Books Briefly Noted: Bait and Switch by Barbara Ehrenreich". New Yorker. September 2005. http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/09/26/050926crbn_brieflynoted3. Retrieved 9 May 2011. 
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6. ^ ^{a b} Edwards, Ivana (17 October 1993). "Barbara Ehrenreich's Writing Attracts an Attentive Audience". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/17/nyregion/barbara-ehrenreich-s-writing-attracts-an-attentive-audience.html?pagewanted=2. Retrieved 8 May 2011. 
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12. ^ "About United Professionals". United Professionals. http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/about/. Retrieved 2008-10-04. 
13. ^ "National Magazine Awards Database of Past Winners and Finalists". American Society of Magazine Editors. http://www.magazine.org/asme/magazine_awards/searchable_database/index.aspx. Retrieved 8 May 2011. 
14. ^ ^{a b} "Columnist Biography: Barbara Ehrenreich". New York Times. 1 July 2004. http://www.nytimes.com/ref/opinion/ehrenreich-bio.html. Retrieved 8 May 2011. 
15. ^ Dowie, Mark (1979). "The Corporate Crime of the Century". Mother Jones. http://motherjones.com/toc/1979/11/table-contents. Retrieved 8 May 2011. 
16. ^ "Humanist of the Year". American Humanist Association. http://www.americanhumanist.org/who_we_are/about_the_AHA/Humanists_of_the_Year. Retrieved 8 May 2011. 
17. ^ "Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism". Sidney Hillman Foundation. http://www.hillmanfoundation.org/hillman-prizes/hillman-prize-magazine-journalism. Retrieved 8 May 2011. 
18. ^ "Harper's Magazine Awards and Honors". Harper's Magazine. http://www.harpers.org/advertising/pdfs-2008-10/Harpers_Magazine_AwardsAndHonors.pdf. Retrieved 8 May 2011. 
19. ^ Ehrenreich, Barbara (November 2001). "Welcome To Cancerland". Harper's Magazine. http://www.barbaraehrenreich.com/cancerland.htm. Retrieved 8 May 2011. 
20. ^ "Barbara Ehrenreich At McGill, Thursday, Nov. 18, 6:30". McGill University. http://neath.wordpress.com/2010/11/14/barbara-ehrenreich-at-mcgill-thursday-nov-18-630/. Retrieved 8 May 2011. 
21. ^ "Puffin Foundation: Puffin Nation Award For Creative Citizenship". Puffin Foundation. http://www.puffinfoundation.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23:puffin-nation-award-for-creative-citizenship&catid=5:projects&Itemid=37. Retrieved 8 May 2011. 
22. ^ "Four Freedoms Award: Celebrating those whose life's work embodies FDR's Four Freedoms". Roosevelt Institute. http://www.rooseveltinstitute.org/four-freedoms-medals. Retrieved 8 May 2011. 
23. ^ ^{a b} Edited by Allison Gilbert and Christina Baker Kline (2006). Always Too Soon: Voices of Support for Those Who Have Lost Both Parents. Seal Press. pp. 269. http://books.google.com/books?id=ygkEWnnIrpkC&lpg=PA269&dq=%22always%20too%20soon%22%20barbara%20ehrenreich&pg=PA269#v=onepage&q=%22always%20too%20soon%22%20barbara%20ehrenreich&f=false. 
24. ^ "Bitters and Cream (personal site)". John Ehrenreich. http://www.bittersandcream.com/index.php?p=1_4_About-Me. Retrieved 9 May 2011. 
25. ^ Ehrenreich, Barbara (22 July 2004). "Owning Up To Abortion". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/22/opinion/owning-up-to-abortion.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm. Retrieved 9 May 2011. 
26. ^ Andrews, Robert (1993). The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 3. http://books.google.com/books?id=4cl5c4T9LWkC&lpg=PA3&dq=%22The%20one%20regret%20I%20have%20about%20my%20own%20abortions%20is%20that%20they%20cost%20money%20that%20might%20otherwise%20have%20been%20spent%20on%20something%20more%20pleasurable%2C%20like%20taking%20the%20kids%20to%20movies%20and%20theme%20parks.%22&pg=PA3#v=onepage&q=%22The%20one%20regret%20I%20have%20about%20my%20own%20abortions%20is%20that%20they%20cost%20money%20that%20might%20otherwise%20have%20been%20spent%20on%20something%20more%20pleasurable,%20like%20taking%20the%20kids%20to%20movies%20and%20theme%20parks.%22&f=false. 
27. ^ Szklarski, Cassandra (31 January 2012). "NFB doc examines the politics of marketing disease". CTV News. Canadian Press. http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Entertainment/20120131/nfb-breast-cancer-documentary-120131/. Retrieved 31 January 2012. 
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External links[link]

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• Official website
• Barbara Ehrenreich's blog
• Works by or about Barbara Ehrenreich in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Articles by Barbara Ehrenreich on Alternet
• Booknotes interview with Ehrenreich on Fear of Falling, October 8, 1989.
• In Depth interview with Ehrenreich, March 4, 2007
• VIDEO: Barbara Ehrenreich - This Land Is Their Land: Reports From a Divided Nation, July 16, 2008
• Author Barbara Ehrenreich on Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
• Bait and Switch book discussion at Books Inc., September 2006
• Bright Sided discussion on the American frame of mind at The Commonwealth Club, October 2009
• Smile or Die: The Tyranny of Positive Thinking talk at The RSA, February 2010