Tracing Behavioral Changes among Discouraged Workers: What Happens to the Work Ethic?
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Job Loss
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Material from an ethnographic case study of 102 randomly selected blue-collar workers who experienced job loss in the 1980s was examined, with a focus on a subgroup of 11 who became “discouraged” and withdrew from the labor force. Changes in the job-search behavior and attitudes of the discouraged workers are traced, and theoretical explanations for their resignation and withdrawal are explored.
2017 ◽
Vol 30
(3)
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pp. 91-110
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2014 ◽
Vol 85
(3)
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pp. 422-432
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2014 ◽
Vol 24
(4)
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pp. 670-679
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