Publication Type

Magazine Article

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

4-2020

Abstract

I interviewed Todd, a marketing professional, in 2014 for my forthcoming book, Crunch Time: How Married Couples Confront Unemployment, which focuses on the unemployment experiences of highly educated, married professionals with children in the U.S. Like dozens of other professionals I interviewed, Todd’s employment is key to his sense of self, determining how he measures his social status and self-worth. Yet, this self-worth is constantly threatened, because professionals like Todd have become recent casualties of a pervasive labor market uncertainty that existed long before the coronavirus pandemic.

Keywords

Professionals, unemployment, gender, social status, self-worth

Discipline

Gender and Sexuality | Sociology | Work, Economy and Organizations

Research Areas

Sociology

Publication

Harvard Business Review

First Page

1

Last Page

3

ISSN

0017-8012

Publisher

Harvard Business Review

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