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
Citation
RAO, Aliya Hamid, "When losing your job feels like losing your self" (2020). Research Collection School of Social Sciences. Paper 3192.
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3192
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3192
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Authors
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