Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Effect of the Loss of Stable Career-Paths on the Professional Middle Class

SES-1602568约翰·埃文斯Lindsay J.Depalma加州大学圣迭戈分校在过去几十年里，重大的结构性变化导致稳定的职业道路被兼职或合同工取代，职业道路普遍支离破碎。这种市场经济需要灵活的工人，并创造出不确定和不可预测的工作。这些变化的特点是雇主和雇员之间的关系从关系型转变为交易型，正在专业中产阶级中产生一种前所未有的不稳定工作形式。这个项目分析了专业人士如何在关于可爱的工作、成功和代理的文化叙事与前所未有的不稳定工作水平之间协商矛盾。这项研究概念化了两种广泛的专业工作经验，一种是在市场经济中，另一种是在组织经济中。市场经济中的工作具有不稳定性、风险性、灵活性和不稳定性，而组织经济中的工作具有稳定性、低风险、刚性和安全性。该项目通过分析在市场经济和组织经济中都有职位的三种职业，比较了经历过工作不稳定的专业人员和没有工作的专业人员，保持职业不变？工程师、设计师和护士。调查人员总共将询问72名专业人士。需要这些数据，以便了解专业人员面临的新问题，并制定文化和体制解决方案。这项研究将有助于建立一种新的社会契约，赋予雇主市场所需的灵活性，并赋予员工在市场经济中蓬勃发展所需的安全和文化连贯性。

SES-1602568John EvansLindsay J. DepalmaUniversity of California, San DiegoOver the last few decades, major structural changes have resulted in the replacement of stable career-paths with part-time or contractual labor and the general fragmentation of professional career paths. This market economy demands flexible workers and creates work that is uncertain and unpredictable. These changes, characterized by the relationship between employer and employee transitioning from relational to transactional, is generating an unprecedented form of precarious work in the professional middle class. This project analyzes how professionals negotiate contradictions between cultural narratives about lovable work, success, and agency, and unprecedented levels of precarious work. The research conceptualizes two broad experiences of professional work, one in the market economy and one in the organizations economy. Work within the market economy is characterized by instability, risk, flexibility, and precariousness, while work within the organizations economy is characterized by stability, low risk, rigidity, and security. This project compares professionals who experience work as precarious to those who do not, holding occupation constant by analyzing three occupations that have positions in both the market and the organizations economy? engineers, designers, and nurses. In total, the investigators will interview 72 professionals. These data are needed in order to understand the new problems professional workers face, and to develop cultural and institutional solutions. This research will contribute insights that will help to build a new social contract that grants employers the flexibility that the market demands and employees the securities and cultural coherence that they need to thrive in a market economy.