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Author:   Allison J. Pugh (Associate Professor of Sociology, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 16.00cm
Weight:   0.612kg
ISBN:  

9780199957767

ISBN 10:   0199957762
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   22 December 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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"INTRODUCTION: THE BROADER IMPACTS OF PRECARIOUSNESS Allison J. Pugh PART I: CULTURE, EMOTIONS, AND THE FLEXIBLE SELF Chapter 1: The Making of a ""Happy Worker"": Positive Psychology in Neoliberal Organizations Edgar Cabanas Diaz and Eva Illouz Chapter 2: Boomer and Gen X Managers and Employees at Risk: Evidence from the Work, Family and Health Network Study Jack Lam, Phyllis Moen, Shi-Rong Lee, and Orfeu M. Buxton Chapter 3: Unemployed Tech Workers' Ambivalent Embrace of the Flexible Ideal Carrie M. Lane Chapter 4: Laboring Heroes, Security, and the Political Economy of Intimacy in Postwar Japan Allison Alexy Chapter 5: ""Relying on Myself Alone"": Single Mothers Forging Socially Necessary Selves in Neoliberal Russia Jennifer Utrata PART II: INSECURITY AND INEQUALITIES Chapter 6: Different Ways of Not Having It All: Work, Care, and Shifting Gender Arrangements in the New Economy Kathleen Gerson Chapter 7: Racialized Family Ideals: Breadwinning, Domesticity, and the Negotiation of Insecurity Enobong Hannah Branch Chapter 8: Moving On to Stay Put: Employee Relocation in the Face of Employment Insecurity Elizabeth Ann Whitaker Chapter 9: Between Gender Contracts, Economic Crises and Work-Family Reconciliation: How the Bursting Bubble Reshaped Israeli High-Tech Workers' Experience of Balance Michal Frenkel Chapter 10: Security-Autonomy-Mobility Roadmaps: Passports To Security for Youth Jeremy Schulz and Laura Robinson Chapter 11: Intimate Inequalities: Love and Work in the 21st Century Sarah M. Corse and Jennifer M. Silva AFTERWORD Christine Williams"

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Allison Pugh is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. She is the author of The Tumbleweed Society: Working and Caring in an Age of Insecurity and Longing and Belonging: Parents, Children and Consumer Culture.

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