When losing your job feels like losing your self

When losing your job feels like losing your self

I interviewed Todd, a marketing professional, in 2014 for my forthcoming book, Crunch Time: How Married Couples Confront Unemployment, which focuses on the unemployment experiences of highly educated, married professionals with children in the U.S. Like dozens of other professionals I interviewed, T...

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Main Author: RAO, Aliya Hamid
Format: text
Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
Subjects:
Professionals
unemployment
gender
social status
self-worth
Gender and Sexuality
Sociology
Work, Economy and Organizations
Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3192
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4449/viewcontent/When_Losing_Your_Job_Feels_Like_Losing_Self_av.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English
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Summary:I interviewed Todd, a marketing professional, in 2014 for my forthcoming book, Crunch Time: How Married Couples Confront Unemployment, which focuses on the unemployment experiences of highly educated, married professionals with children in the U.S. Like dozens of other professionals I interviewed, Todd’s employment is key to his sense of self, determining how he measures his social status and self-worth. Yet, this self-worth is constantly threatened, because professionals like Todd have become recent casualties of a pervasive labor market uncertainty that existed long before the coronavirus pandemic.

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