Flawed System/Flawed Self: Job Searching and Unemployment Experiences

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Today 4.7 million Americans have been unemployed for more than six months. In France more than ten percent of the working population is without work. In Israel it’s above seven percent. And in Greece and Spain, that number approaches thirty percent. Across the developed world, the experience of unemployment has turn into frighteningly common―and so are the seemingly endless tactics that job seekers employ in their quest for new work.

Flawed System/Fallacious Self delves beneath these staggering numbers to explore the world of job searching and unemployment across class and nation. Through in-depth interviews and observations at job-search give a boost to organizations, Ofer Sharone reveals how different labor-market institutions give rise to job-search games like Israel’s résumé-based “spec games”―which are focused on presenting one’s skills to fit the job―and the “chemistry games” more common in america in which job seekers be aware of presenting the person at the back of the résumé. By closely examining the specific day by day activities and strategies of looking for a job, Sharone develops a theory of the mechanisms that connect objective social structures and subjective experiences on this challenging environment and shows how these different structures can result in very different experiences of unemployment.

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