Flawed System/Flawed Self

Job Searching and Unemployment Experiences

Ofer Sharone

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University of Chicago Press
16 October 2013

Sociology: work & labour; Employment & unemployment

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 become frighteningly common-and so are the seemingly endless tactics that job seekers employ in their quest for new work.

Flawed System/Flawed Selfdelves 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 support 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 the United States in which job seekers concentrate on presenting the person behind the résumé. By closely examining the specific day-to-day activities and strategies of searching for a job, Sharone develops a theory of the mechanisms that connect objective social structures and subjective experiences in this challenging environment and shows how these different structures can lead to very different experiences of unemployment.

By: Ofer Sharone
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 23mm, Width: 17mm, Spine: 1mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9780226073538
ISBN 10: 022607353X
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 16 October 2013
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ofer Sharone teaches at MIT's Sloan School of Management, where he is assistant professor of work and employment relations. He lives in Lexington, MA.

Reviews for Flawed System/Flawed Self: Job Searching and Unemployment Experiences

In Job-Search Games, Ofer Sharone develops a cogent, timely, and compelling account of why American employees blame themselves for their failure to secure employment and why their Israeli counterparts engage in system blame instead. Sharone moves the discussion well beyond global generalizations about the role of culture to make an important contribution to the literature of joblessness. (Steven Vallas, author of Work: A Critique)