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A Company of One: Insecurity, Independence, and the New World of White-Collar Unemployment

A Company of One: Insecurity, Independence, and the New World of White-Collar Unemployment

Lane, Carrie M.

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ISBN10: 0801477271
ISBN13: 9780801477270
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: Mar 15 2011
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Being laid off can be a traumatic event. The unemployed worry about how they will pay their bills and find a new job. In the American economy's boom-and-bust business cycle since the 1980s, repeated layoffs have become part of working life. In A Company of One, Carrie M. Lane finds that the new culture of corporate employment, changes to the job search process, and dual-income marriage have reshaped how today's skilled workers view unemployment. Through interviews with seventy-five unemployed and underemployed high-tech white-collar workers in the Dallas area over the course of the 2000s, Lane shows that they have embraced a new definition of employment in which all jobs are temporary and all workers are, or should be, independent companies of one.

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