Today 4.7 million Americans have been unemployed for more than six months. In France
more than ten percent of the working population is without work. In Israel it’s above seven …

In Flawed System/Flawed Self, Ofer Sharone presents an in-depth exploration of the
challenging work that unemployed people engage in as they set about to find a new job. Using …

Flawed System/Flawed Self: Job Searching and Unemployment Experiences looks into the
world of white-collar unemployment. Over the past 50 years, economic and political changes …

What are the factors that shape unemployed individuals’ job search behaviors? And, how
do these job seekers experience the process of trying to find employment? One might argue …

99 PERSPECTIVES ON WORK/2014 employment tests are universal for American white-collar
job applicants, most Israeli employers have begun using them only in recent years to …

In recent years, sociologists have examined unemployment and job searching as important
arenas in which workers are socialized to accept the terms of an increasingly precarious …

A burgeoning literature on white-collar unemployment and job searching has sought over
the past two decades to explain why white-collar workers embrace neoliberal labor market …

When activation is an essential cog in public policies, looking for a job is top priority for the
jobless, and becomes their professional occupation. Job search experience is studied here in …

Job search is a central element of activation policies, which aim to transform unemployed
people into active jobseekers who are subject to checks. We examine a neglected aspect of …