Experiences of white‐collar job loss and job‐searching in the United States

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aliya Hamid Rao
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Job Loss ◽  
White Collar ◽  
The United States ◽  
Job Searching

Social Capital Activation and Job Searching: Embedding the Use of Weak Ties in the American Institutional Context

2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 409-439 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ofer Sharone
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Institutional Context ◽  
White Collar ◽  
The United States ◽  
Labor Market Institutions ◽  
Weak Ties ◽  
Job Seekers ◽  
Job Searching ◽  
Depth Interviews

By comparing job seekers’ use of weak ties in Israel and the United States, this article shows that Granovetter’s canonical findings are rooted in the particular institutional context of the American white-collar labor market. Drawing on in-depth interviews with three distinct groups of white-collar job seekers: Americans searching in the United States, Israelis searching in Israel, and Israelis searching in the United States, this article untangles cultural and institutional factors underlying the use of weak ties and shows how labor market institutions and processes of hiring shape systematic variations in job seekers’ utilization of weak ties.

Counting on Relief: Industrializing the Statistical Interviewer during the New Deal

2011 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 281-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Didier
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Deal ◽  
White Collar ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
White Collar Workers ◽  
Statistical Studies ◽  
The One ◽  
The New Deal

ArgumentWhen the New Deal administration attained power in the United States, it was confronted with two different problems that could be linked to one another. On the one hand, there was a huge problem of unemployment, affecting everybody including the white-collar workers. And, on the other hand, the administration suffered from a very serious lack of data to illuminate its politics. One idea that came out of this situation was to use the abundant unemployed white-collar workers as enumerators of statistical studies. This paper describes this experiment, shows how it paradoxically affected the professionalization of statistics, and explains why it did not affect expert democracy despite its Deweysian participationist aspect.

What’s Stopping Them?

2018 ◽  
pp. 120-157
Author(s):  
Nicholas Carnes
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
White Collar ◽  
The United States ◽  
Personal Networks ◽  
Basic Logic ◽  
Recruitment Process ◽  
Root Cause ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
New Recruits ◽  
Shed Light

This chapter aims to shed light on the gates that keep workers out of office in the United States. Elections themselves appear to be the root cause. The analysis focuses on the two features of elections that seem to be behind the micro-level inequalities documented in Chapter 3, namely, the high and rising burdens associated with campaigning and the insular world of candidate recruitment. The practical anxieties that keep individual workers from running appear to stem from the very nature of elections in a representative democracy. The encouragement gaps that workers experience seem to arise from the basic logic of the candidate recruitment process, the fundamental challenges that lead many recruiters to simply look for new recruits within their own mostly white-collar personal networks.

Government by the Privileged

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Nicholas Carnes
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Service Industry ◽  
White Collar ◽  
The United States ◽  
Manual Labor ◽  
Democratic Process ◽  
The People ◽  
Political Office ◽  
Labor Service

This chapter opens the discussion on why working-class Americans—people employed in manual labor, service industry, or clerical jobs—almost never go on to hold political office in the United States. It suggests that the economic gulf between politicians and the people they represent—a so-called government by the privileged or white-collar government—has serious consequences for the American democratic process. Although journalists and scholars have always had hunches about what keeps working-class Americans out of office, to date there has been almost no actual research on why the United States is governed by the privileged or what reformers might do about it. This book tries to change that. It argues that workers are less likely to hold office not because they are unqualified or because voters prefer more affluent candidates, but because workers are simply less likely to run for public office in the first place.

Challenges of COVID-19 During 2020 and Opportunities for FinTech in 2021 for Digital Transformation of Business and Financial Institutions in India

2021 ◽  
pp. 282-299
Author(s):  
Narinder Kumar Bhasin ◽  
Kamal Gulati
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Job Loss ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Extended Period ◽  
The United States ◽  
Emerging Technology ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
The World ◽  
Technology Trends

Fintech/TechFin/financial and banking sector achieved the new digital disruptions and transformation milestones in India, underlining the various opportunities in the last year, 2020, when the world was struggling with the COVID-19 pandemic, an extended period of lockdown, job loss, and unemployment. India has emerged as the fastest-growing second largest leading fintech hub in the world after the United States. This chapter will explain the various challenges faced in the year 2020 and opportunities for fintech in 2021. The chapter also explains the emerging technology trends and growth of finechs in India during the COVID pandemic.

Socioeconomic Dualism: The Case of Israeli-born Immigrants in the United States

1989 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yinon Cohen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Marital Status ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Past Research ◽  
White Collar ◽  
The United States ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Socioeconomic Characteristics ◽  
Education Industry

Relying on the 1980 U. S. Census of Foreign-Born Population and the 1979 INS Public Use File, this article compares Israeli-born Americans (including Arabs) to both the United States and Israeli populations with respect to age, marital status, unemployment, education, industry, occupation and income as of 1979–80. Some of the results, mainly those pertaining to the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of Israeli immigrants as compared to their society of origin, corroborate previous research. Thus, Israeli-born immigrants in the United States held top white-collar jobs and were less likely to be unemployed than the rest of the Israeli labor force. Once in America, however, it seems that not all Israeli-born Americans are as successful as portrayed by past research. In fact, the Census data reveal occupational and economic dualism among the population of Israeli-born Americans. The reasons for this dualism are discussed.

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