Insights about Researching Discouraged Workers
| Autor: | Rebecca M. Aldrich Ma Otr, Yada Callanan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Sociology and Political Science
business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Public relations Economic Justice Work (electrical) Phenomenon Ethnography Unemployment Discouraged worker Sociology Social science business Database transaction Social Sciences (miscellaneous) media_common Social status |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Occupational Science. 18:153-166 |
| ISSN: | 2158-1576 1442-7591 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14427591.2011.575756 |
| Popis: | Discouraged workers, who want to work but have given up looking for employment, form a socially marginalized group whose occupations and experiences remain poorly researched. As such, discouraged workers and their situations offer new avenues for inquiry about occupation, well-being, justice, and the relationships between them. Yet discouraged workers' peripheral social standing both justifies a need for research and complicates its execution. This article describes how experiences in the field reframed an ethnographic study of discouraged workers in rural North Carolina. The authors (the researcher and one discouraged worker) suggest that the second author's disappearance fostered collaborative opportunities and understandings that were initially unavailable to the study, and argue that the research situation itself began to mirror the uncertainty inherent in discouraged workers' situation. The insights derived from the phenomenon of disappearance provide valuable information for planning, executing, and... |
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