A Company of One: Insecurity, Independence, and the New World of White-Collar Unemployment by Lane, Carrie M.
A Company of One: Insecurity, Independence, and the New World of White-Collar Unemployment by Lane, Carrie M.

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

Being laid off can be a traumatic event. The unemployed worry about how they will pay their...
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A Company of One: Insecurity, Independence, and the New World of White-Collar Unemployment by Lane, Carrie M.

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

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A Company of One: Insecurity, Independence, and the New World of White-Collar Unemployment by Lane, Carrie M.

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

$572.66
Author: Carrie M. Lane
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

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."

Following the experiences of individual jobseekers over time, Lane explores the central role that organized networking events, working spouses, and neoliberal ideology play in forging and reinforcing a new individualist, pro-market response to the increasingly insecure nature of contemporary employment. She also explores how this new perspective is transforming traditional ideas about masculinity and the role of men as breadwinners. Sympathetic to the benefits that this "company of one" ideology can hold for its adherents, Lane also details how it hides the true costs of an insecure workforce and makes collective and political responses to job loss and downward mobility unlikely.



Author: Carrie M. Lane
Publisher: ILR Press
Published: 03/15/2011
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780801477270
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2011
Reference and Research Bk News 06/01/2011 pg. 85

About the Author

Carrie M. Lane is Assistant Professor of American Studies at California State University, Fullerton.


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