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

在过去的几十年里，主要的结构性变化导致了稳定的职业道路被兼职或合同劳动所取代，职业道路普遍碎片化。这种市场经济要求灵活的工人，并创造了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事务型，这在专业中产阶级中产生了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之间进行协调。该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，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、灵活性和不稳定性的特点，而组织经济中的工作具有稳定性、低风险、刚性和安全性的特点。这个项目通过分析在市场和组织经济中都有地位的三种职业来比较那些经历过不稳定工作的专业人士和那些没有经历过不稳定工作的专业人士。工程师、设计师和护士。调查人员总共将采访72名专业人士。为了了解专业工作者面临的新问题，并制定文化和制度解决方案，需要这些数据。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，赋予雇员在市场经济中茁壮成长所需的安全感和文化一致性。

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.