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Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Sociologist Dawn R. Norris uses in-depth interviews to offer insight into the experience of losing a job-what it means for daily life, how the unemployed feel about it, and the process they go through as they try to deal with job loss and their new identities as unemployed people. She also examines the importance of the subjective meaning people give to status, along with the strong influence of society's expectations. For example, me in Norris's...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Shannon, Wally, and John built their lives around their place of work. Shannon, a white single mother, became the first woman to run the factory's dangerous furnaces at the Rexnord manufacturing plant in Indianapolis and was proud of producing one of the world's top brands of steel bearings. Wally, a black man known for his initiative and kindness, was promoted to become chairman of efficiency, one of the most coveted posts on the factory floor, and...
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