LEADER 03685nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910781251503321 005 20230725051940.0 010 $a0-8014-6127-8 010 $a0-8014-6079-4 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801460791 035 $a(CKB)2550000000036235 035 $a(OCoLC)728082246 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10467982 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000535239 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11379275 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000535239 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10521422 035 $a(PQKB)10135405 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001496007 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138103 035 $a(OCoLC)966768011 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse51801 035 $a(DE-B1597)480059 035 $a(OCoLC)979743945 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801460791 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138103 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10467982 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL767793 035 $a(OCoLC)865509008 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000036235 100 $a20100922d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA company of one$b[electronic resource] $einsecurity, independence, and the new world of white-collar unemployment /$fCarrie M. Lane 210 $aIthaca $cILR Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (212 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8014-7727-1 311 $a0-8014-4964-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : fortitude, faith, and the free market -- Silicon prairie -- A company of one -- The hardest job you'll ever have -- Rituals of unemployment -- Man enough to let my wife support me. 330 $aBeing laid off can be a traumatic event. The unemployed worry about how they will pay their bills and find a new job. In the American economy's boom-and-bust business cycle since the 1980's, repeated layoffs have become part of working life. In A Company of One, Carrie M. Lane finds that the new culture of corporate employment, changes to the job search process, and dual-income marriage have reshaped how today's skilled workers view unemployment. Through interviews with seventy-five unemployed and underemployed high-tech white-collar workers in the Dallas area over the course of the 2000's, Lane shows that they have embraced a new definition of employment in which all jobs are temporary and all workers are, or should be, independent "companies of one. "Following the experiences of individual jobseekers over time, Lane explores the central role that organized networking events, working spouses, and neoliberal ideology play in forging and reinforcing a new individualist, pro-market response to the increasingly insecure nature of contemporary employment. She also explores how this new perspective is transforming traditional ideas about masculinity and the role of men as breadwinners. Sympathetic to the benefits that this "company of one" ideology can hold for its adherents, Lane also details how it hides the true costs of an insecure workforce and makes collective and political responses to job loss and downward mobility unlikely. 606 $aDisplaced workers$zUnited States 606 $aUnemployed$zUnited States 606 $aWhite collar workers$zUnited States 615 0$aDisplaced workers 615 0$aUnemployed 615 0$aWhite collar workers 676 $a331.13/7973 700 $aLane$b Carrie M.$f1974-$01464391 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781251503321 996 $aA company of one$93674003 997 $aUNINA