Making the Cut : : Hiring Decisions, Bias, and the Consequences of Nonstandard, Mismatched, and Precarious Employment /

Making the Cut : : Hiring Decisions, Bias, and the Consequences of Nonstandard, Mismatched, and Precarious Employment / / David Pedulla.

An in-depth look at how employers today perceive and evaluate job applicants with nonstandard or precarious employment historiesMillions of workers today labor in nontraditional situations involving part-time work, temporary agency employment, and skills underutilization or face the precariousness o...

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Pedulla, David,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.) :; 21 b/w illus. 5 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • 1. Hiring in the New Economy
  • 2. Nonstandard, Mismatched, and Precarious Work
  • 3. Making Meaning of Employment Histories: Signals, Uncertainty, and the Need for a Narrative
  • 4. Inclusion and Exclusion in Hiring: The Varied Effects of Nonstandard, Mismatched, and Precarious Employment Histories
  • 5. “What Type of a Grown Man Doesn’t Have a Full-Time Job?”: Gender and Part-Time Work
  • 6. “Maybe It’s More Natural for Them to Have Been Out of Work for a Little While”: Race and Unemployment
  • 7. “They Do a Pretty Thorough Background Check”: THA Employment and African American Men
  • 8. Conclusion
  • Methodological Appendix
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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