Flawed System/Flawed Self

Job Searching and Unemployment Experiences

Ofer Sharone (Autor)

Online Resource

239 Seiten

2014
University of Chicago Press (Hersteller)
978-0-226-07367-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Today 4.7 million Americans have been unemployed for more than six months. In France more than ten percent of the working population is without work. In Israel itOCOs above seven percent. And in Greece and Spain, that number approaches thirty percent. Across the developed world, the experience of unemployment has become frighteningly commonOCoand so are the seemingly endless tactics that job seekers employ in their quest for new work. "Flawed System/Flawed Self"adelves beneath these staggering numbers to explore the world of job searching and unemployment across class and nation. Through in-depth interviews and observations at job-search support organizations, Ofer Sharone reveals how different labor-market institutions give rise to job-search games like IsraelOCOs r(r)sum(r)-based OC spec gamesOCOOCowhich are focused on presenting oneOCOs skills to fit the jobOCoand the OC chemistry gamesOCO more common in the United States in which job seekers concentrate on presenting the person behind the r(r)sum(r). By closely examining the specific day-to-day activities and strategies of searching for a job, Sharone develops a theory of the mechanisms that connect objective social structures and subjective experiences in this challenging environment and shows how these different structures can lead to very different experiences of unemployment."

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.5.2014
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Bewerbung / Karriere
• ISBN-10: 0-226-07367-X / 022607367X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07367-5 / 9780226073675
• Zustand: Neuware