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What I'm worth: White-collar unempl...

Chet, Carrie Lane.

What I'm worth: White-collar unemployment in a new economy (Texas).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	What I'm worth: White-collar unemployment in a new economy (Texas).
Author:	Chet, Carrie Lane.
Description:	243 p.
Notes:	Director: Kathryn M. Dudley.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-03, Section: A, page: 1049.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-03A.
Subject:	American Studies.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3168869
ISBN:	9780542048074

What I'm worth: White-collar unemployment in a new economy (Texas).
Chet, Carrie Lane.

What I'm worth: White-collar unemployment in a new economy (Texas). - 243 p.

Director: Kathryn M. Dudley.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2005.

This ethnographic study examines contemporary high-technology workers' responses to job loss, prolonged unemployment, and the globalization of the high-tech labor market. Findings are based on ethnographic fieldwork in Dallas, Texas between 2001 and 2003 with follow-up interviews in 2004. The researcher interviewed over seventy-five unemployed high-technology workers, a subset of whose experiences and attitudes were tracked over a three-year period, and engaged in participant observation at networking and job search events for unemployed tech workers.

ISBN: 9780542048074Subjects--Topical Terms:

212409
American Studies.

What I'm worth: White-collar unemployment in a new economy (Texas).
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520 # $a This research found that while previous generations of laid-off workers understood job loss as the result of personal failure or corporate betrayal, today's white-collar workers see job change---voluntary or not---as an inevitable part of professional life. Drawing on a longstanding tradition of self-reliant entrepreneurship in American culture, these jobseekers reject the crumbling social contract of employment and espouse in its place a model of work that privileges autonomy over security. This perspective leaves tech workers better prepared to sidestep the traditional emotional and social pitfalls of prolonged unemployment. It also predisposes them to favor individual responses to economic crisis over collective ones, even as they seek support and comfort from fellow jobseekers at weekly networking groups for the unemployed. This individualist tendency is highlighted in an analysis of tech workers' divided responses to the practice of offshoring, or sending work overseas to be completed by foreign workers. A vocal minority of tech workers denounces offshoring as unethical, unpatriotic, and economically shortsighted. Most jobseekers interviewed, however, see offshoring as a natural offshoot of an unstoppable and ultimately beneficial system of global capitalist competition. These workers advocate the pursuit of individual competitiveness as the solution to the social and economic crises that system has created.
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