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The Stigma Trap: College-Educated, Experienced, and Long-Term Unemployed de Ofer Sharone

The Stigma Trap: College-Educated, Experienced, and Long-Term Unemployed

Autor Ofer Sharone
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 apr 2024

Ne-a atras atenția, în primul rând, rigoarea cu care The Stigma Trap descompune mecanismul subtil prin care experiența profesională și educația de prestigiu devin irelevante în fața etichetei de „șomer de lungă durată”. Ofer Sharone nu se limitează la o analiză statistică, ci își ancorează cercetarea în interviuri aprofundate cu recrutori și experți în resurse umane, oferind o perspectivă rară asupra modului în care prejudecățile instituționale blochează accesul profesioniștilor în clasa de mijloc. Remarcăm studiul de caz al lui Larry, doctor în matematică la MIT, a cărui traiectorie demonstrează că nicio carieră, indiferent de succesul anterior, nu este imună la eroziunea socială provocată de un șomaj prelungit.

Această ediție publicată de Oxford University Press aduce o contribuție esențială în sociologia muncii, evidențiind faptul că stigmatul nu distruge doar finanțele, ci și structura familială și stima de sine. Cititorii familiarizați cu A Company of One – Insecurity, Independence, and the New World of White–Collar Unemployment de Carrie M. Lane vor aprecia modul în care Ofer Sharone extinde discuția de la cultura corporatistă la impactul psihologic profund al stigmatizării. Spre deosebire de lucrările care se concentrează strict pe tehnici de căutare a locurilor de muncă, volumul de față analizează forțele structurale care transformă o perioadă de tranziție într-o capcană socială. Stilul este precis, academic dar accesibil, oferind un fundament teoretic solid pentru înțelegerea anxietății care definește piața muncii contemporană din Statele Unite și, prin extensie, economia globală.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780190239244
ISBN-10: 0190239247
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 224 x 165 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte celor interesați de sociologia muncii și profesioniștilor din resurse umane care doresc să înțeleagă barierele invizibile din procesul de recrutare. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă critică asupra mitului meritocrației și înțelege cum stigmatul șomajului poate anula decenii de realizări. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege fragilitatea statutului profesional în economia actuală și pentru a identifica soluții sistemice dincolo de efortul individual.

Despre autor

Ofer Sharone este profesor asistent de muncă și relații de angajare la MIT Sloan School of Management. Expertiza sa se concentrează pe intersecția dintre sociologie și piața muncii, cu un interes deosebit pentru experiența șomajului în rândul gulerelor albe. Prin lucrările sale anterioare, precum Flawed System/Flawed Self, Sharone s-a impus ca o voce autoritară în analiza comparativă a piețelor de muncă internaționale. Activitatea sa academică de la MIT îi oferă acces la date de primă mână despre dinamica recrutării în industriile de înaltă tehnologie, context care fundamentează analizele din prezentul volum.

Descriere

An eye-opening look at how all American workers, even the highly educated and experienced, are vulnerable to the stigma of unemployment. After receiving a PhD in mathematics from MIT, Larry spent three decades working at prestigious companies in the tech industry. Initially he was not worried when he lost his job as part of a large layoff, but the prolonged unemployment that followed decimated his finances and nearly ended his marriage. Larry's story is not an anomaly. The majority of American workers experience unemployment, and millions get trapped in devastating long-term unemployment, including experienced workers with advanced degrees from top universities. How is it possible for even highly successful careers to suddenly go off the rails? In The Stigma Trap, Ofer Sharone explains how the stigma of unemployment can render past educational and professional achievements irrelevant, and how it leaves all American workers vulnerable to becoming trapped in unemployment. Drawing on interviews with unemployed workers, job recruiters, and career coaches, Sharone brings to light the subtle ways that stigmatization prevents even the most educated and experienced workers from gaining middle-class jobs. Stigma also means that an American worker risks more than financial calamity from a protracted period of unemployment. One's closest relationships and sense of self are also on the line. Eye-opening and clearly written, The Stigma Trap is essential reading for anyone who has experienced unemployment, has a family member or friend who is unemployed, or who wants to understand the forces that underlie the anxiety-filled lives of contemporary American workers. The book offers a unique approach to supporting unemployed jobseekers. At a broader level it exposes the precarious condition of American workers and sparks a conversation about much-needed policies to assure that we are not all one layoff away from being trapped by stigma.

Recenzii

The Stigma Trap reveals that the problem of not being able to get a job unless you have a job extends well into the white collar workforce where it perpetuates misery. A profoundly important story in a world with perpetual layoffs.
What if the ultimate insurance policy against unemployment no longer works? Some 12 percent of long-term unemployed jobseekers hold professional degrees. And the older they get, the harder it gets, as company officials reason, 'Oh that guy wouldn't be happy here; he's overqualified.' With a minimal safety net to compensate for lost income, and a missing safety net against lost dignity, some of our best and brightest face a hidden crisis. As Ofer Sharone argues, this is a crisis for its unemployed victims and it also casts a giant question mark over the core belief that we can all make it if we really try. Brilliant, surprising, important.
A deeply moving, analytically rigorous account of the human damage so often suffered by the long term unemployed-a fate that can befall any of us at any time. The Stigma Trap offers a powerful critique of the myth of meritocracy.
Ofer Sharone has written a landmark book that exudes heartfelt empathy and deep insights into the stigma of long-term unemployment in the United States. This deeply researched book is both scholarly and powerfully moving as it describes the painful stigma that has such a corrosive impact on the lives of unemployed adults and their families. The book includes much needed advice about how unemployed people (and their support systems) can counteract the insidious nature of internalized stigma and how society can change the vicious cycle that creates unemployment and internalized stigma. I enthusiastically recommend this book-it will change how you think about work, unemployment, and affirm the importance of treating everyone with decency and dignity.
Through engrossing in-depth interviews, Sharone demonstrates the unnecessary suffering that comes with unemployment, not just material deprivation but the cultural stigma that makes searching for a job not only hard work but self-defeating-shameful, humiliating, isolating, corroding relations within the family and among friends and destroying self-esteem. Self-help therapies for the unemployed presume a mythical meritocracy and misrecognize stigma as a sign of weakness. Sharone practices a radical alternative treatment that calls for confronting the stigma through an emancipatory social movement. In demystifying the misery of unemployment, The Stigma Trap is itself transformative. A piercing critique of American ideology!
Ofer Sharone's deeply researched book on the devastating stigma suffered by unemployed American workers shines a bright light on a dark corner of the American economy. His in-depth interviews reveal that even the most well-prepared job seekers struggle to find good jobs after they are laid off.
Sharone strives to dispel the myth of meritocracy and blend research with support, offering "sociologically informed practices" by conveying how personal problems are embedded in social forces. Recommended.
In The Stigma Trap, Ofer Sharone turns his analytical lens to how the long-term unemployed-those who have been unemployed for six months or more-experience stigma in different facets of their life. Sharone focuses on college-educated workers boasting pedigreed educational degrees from storied U.S. institutions like Harvard and MIT.

Notă biografică

Ofer Sharone is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is a nationally recognized expert on unemployment and the author of the award-winning book Flawed System/Flawed Self: Job Searching and Unemployment Experiences (University of Chicago Press). His work has received wide attention from national media outlets, including The New York Times and PBS NewsHour, and he has been invited to participate in policy discussions at the White House and the U.S. Department of Labor. Sharone is also the founder of the Institute for Career Transitions, a non-profit organization focused on supporting long-term unemployed workers.