The Tolls of Uncertainty : : How Privilege and the Guilt Gap Shape Unemployment in America / / Sarah Damaske.

An indispensable investigation into the American unemployment system and the ways gender and class affect the lives of those looking for workThrough 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 h...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 2 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • part I. losing a job
  • 1 Job Loss in the Twenty-First Century
  • 2 The Paths to Job Loss
  • 3 The Ax Falls
  • part II. the fallout
  • 4 Insecurity after the Job Loss
  • 5 The Guilt Gap and Health
  • 6 The Guilt Gap and the Second Shift
  • part III. the search
  • 7 Attempting to Return to Work
  • 8 One Year Later
  • Conclusion: Uncertainty in the Heartland
  • Acknowledgments
  • Methodological Appendix
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Index of Participants