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dc.contributor.authorSallaz, Jeffrey J.
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-22T22:52:43Z
dc.date.available2019-04-22T22:52:43Z
dc.date.issued2017-10
dc.identifier.citationSallaz, J. J. (2017). Exit Tales: How Precarious Workers Navigate Bad Jobs. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 46(5), 573–599. https://doi.org/10.1177/0891241615625458en_US
dc.identifier.issn0891-2416
dc.identifier.issn1552-5414
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0891241615625458
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10150/632087
dc.description.abstractWhy do some workers quit undignified bad jobs, while others persist in them? We know a great deal about how people find employment, along with what they do at work. But we have few studies documenting the lived experience of quitting a bad job. Recent structural transformations, such as the demise of Fordism and the curtailment of welfare, have surely recalibrated the strategies by which precarious individuals navigate the labor market. This article, an ethnography that follows a single cohort of call center employees over nine months, documents four main pathways through which such workers leave versus stay in their jobs. It argues that the emergent class of precarious workers is not homogenous. Gender, race, and age intersect with class to shape how one experiences a given bad job.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipUniversity of Arizona Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Institute [13RPF0188]en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSAGE PUBLICATIONS INCen_US
dc.relation.urlhttp://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0891241615625458en_US
dc.rights© The Author(s) 2016.en_US
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
dc.subjectunemploymenten_US
dc.subjectworken_US
dc.subjectpovertyen_US
dc.subjectjob qualityen_US
dc.subjectturnoveren_US
dc.titleExit Tales: How Precarious Workers Navigate Bad Jobsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.contributor.departmentUniv Arizona, Sch Sociolen_US
dc.identifier.journalJOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY ETHNOGRAPHYen_US
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dc.eprint.versionFinal accepted manuscripten_US
dc.source.journaltitleJournal of Contemporary Ethnography
dc.source.volume46
dc.source.issue5
dc.source.beginpage573
dc.source.endpage599
refterms.dateFOA2019-04-22T22:52:44Z


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