Tolls of Uncertainty (eBook)

How Privilege and the Guilt Gap Shape Unemployment in America

Sarah Damaske (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
336 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21931-8 (ISBN)

Infos

An indispensable investigation into the American unemployment system and the ways gender and class affect the lives of those looking for workThrough the intimate stories of those seeking work, The Tolls of Uncertainty offers a startling look at the nation's unemployment system-who it helps, who it hurts, and what, if anything, we can do to make it fair. Drawing on interviews with one hundred men and women who have lost jobs across Pennsylvania, Sarah Damaske examines the ways unemployment shapes families, finances, health, and the job hunt. Damaske demonstrates that commonly held views of unemployment are either incomplete or just plain wrong. Shaped by a person's gender and class, unemployment generates new inequalities that cast uncertainties on the search for work and on life chances beyond the world of work, threatening opportunity in America.Following in depth the lives of four individuals over the course of their unemployment experiences, Damaske offers insights into how the unemployed perceive their relationship to work. She reveals the high levels of blame that women who have lost jobs place on themselves, leading them to put their families' needs above their own, sacrifice their health, and take on more tasks inside the home. This "e;guilt gap"e; illustrates how unemployment all too often exacerbates existing differences between men and women. Class privilege, too, gives some an advantage, while leaving others at the mercy of an underfunded unemployment system. Middle-class men are generally able to create the time and space to search for good work, but many others are bogged down by the challenges of poverty-level unemployment benefits and family pressures and fall further behind.Timely and engaging, The Tolls of Uncertainty posits that a new path must be taken if the nation's unemployed are to find real relief.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.5.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 2 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Bewerbung / Karriere
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Berufspädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• Schlagworte: African Americans • americans • American Sociological Association • bedtime • blue-collar worker • Bureau of Labor Statistics • Calculation • Career • child care • Childcare • childcare labor • Chronic unemployment • Copyright • day care • Dead-end job • debt • disadvantage • Division of Labour • Dorothea Lange • economic disaster • economic recovery • economist • Education • Employment • Finding • First Book • Follow-up • food pantries • full-time • full-time work • Funding • Gender • Generosity • Graduate school • grandparent • Great Depression • Great Recession • Healthcare • Health crisis • health insurance • Heather Boushey • His Family • Household • household labor • housework • Human Resources • illegal discrimination • income • income reduction • Institution • insurance • Jacob Hacker • Job Loss • Junk Food • Labor • laundry • Layoff • lockstep unemployment • lost jobs • Lunch • master's degree • meal • Medicaid • medical billing • middle class • minimum wage • Nancy Folbre • Obesity • of education • Overtime • Oxford University Press • Participation (decision making) • Part-time contract • Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act • Payment • person of color • pink slip • plant closure • Poverty • poverty in the United States • poverty-level • Precarity • Princeton University Press • Provision (contracting) • Qualitative research • Racism • Recession • Requirement • resentment • Retirement • safety net • salary • saving • Scarcity (social psychology) • Severance • severance package • sick days • Sick leave • single parent • SNAP • Sociology • spouse • State Children's Health Insurance Program • Stephanie Coontz • student loan • Suggestion • Supervisor • Tax • Their Lives • The Second Shift • Trade-off • transitory unemployment • UI payline • Uncertainty • Unemployment • Unemployment benefits • Unemployment Insurance • Unemployment rate • wage • welfare • women and work • women's work • Workforce • Working Class • Working Poor • Working Time • workplace • Work spouse • Writing • year
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21931-1 / 0691219311
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21931-8 / 9780691219318