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The Tolls of Uncertainty - How Privilege and the Guilt Gap Shape Unemployment in America (Hardcover)
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The Tolls of Uncertainty - How Privilege and the Guilt Gap Shape Unemployment in America (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R598
Discovery Miles 5 980
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An indispensable investigation into the American unemployment
system and the ways gender and class affect the lives of those
looking for work Through the intimate stories of those seeking
work, The Tolls of Uncertainty offers a startling look at the
nation's unemployment system-who it helps, who it hurts, and what,
if anything, we can do to make it fair. Drawing on interviews with
one hundred men and women who have lost jobs across Pennsylvania,
Sarah Damaske examines the ways unemployment shapes families,
finances, health, and the job hunt. Damaske demonstrates that
commonly held views of unemployment are either incomplete or just
plain wrong. Shaped by a person's gender and class, unemployment
generates new inequalities that cast uncertainties on the search
for work and on life chances beyond the world of work, threatening
opportunity in America. Following in depth the lives of four
individuals over the course of their unemployment experiences,
Damaske offers insights into how the unemployed perceive their
relationship to work. She reveals the high levels of blame that
women who have lost jobs place on themselves, leading them to put
their families' needs above their own, sacrifice their health, and
take on more tasks inside the home. This "guilt gap" illustrates
how unemployment all too often exacerbates existing differences
between men and women. Class privilege, too, gives some an
advantage, while leaving others at the mercy of an underfunded
unemployment system. Middle-class men are generally able to create
the time and space to search for good work, but many others are
bogged down by the challenges of poverty-level unemployment
benefits and family pressures and fall further behind. Timely and
engaging, The Tolls of Uncertainty posits that a new path must be
taken if the nation's unemployed are to find real relief.
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