The Stigma Trap
College-Educated, Experienced, and Long-Term Unemployed
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The book explores how the stigma of unemployment can negate past educational and professional achievements, making American workers vulnerable to long-term unemployment.
It uses interviews with unemployed workers, recruiters, and career coaches to highlight how stigmatization prevents even educated and experienced workers from securing middle-class jobs.
It argues that this stigma leads to significant financial and personal consequences, affecting relationships and self-perception.
The book offers a new way to support unemployed job seekers and calls for policy changes to address the precarity faced by American workers.
It suggests that society needs to rethink its assumptions about people facing economic hardships.
It uses interviews with unemployed workers, recruiters, and career coaches to highlight how stigmatization prevents even educated and experienced workers from securing middle-class jobs.
It argues that this stigma leads to significant financial and personal consequences, affecting relationships and self-perception.
The book offers a new way to support unemployed job seekers and calls for policy changes to address the precarity faced by American workers.
It suggests that society needs to rethink its assumptions about people facing economic hardships.
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Ofer Sharone, "The Stigma Trap: College-Educated, Experienced, and Long-Term Unemployed" (Oxford UP, 2024)
