Navigating the Labour Market
Women Job Seekers’ Mobilisation of a Postfeminist Sensibility
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 7423746 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Ruth Abrams (0000-0002-2974-7859, University of Surrey, autor correspondente), Deborah Brewis (0000-0002-5855-8723, University of Bath), J Miguel Imas (0000-0003-2947-8086, Kingston University) |
| Ano | 2024 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Fascículo | 1 |
| Páginas | 3-23 |
| Data de publicação | 2024-08-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Work Employment and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0950-0170 • E-ISSN: 1469-8722 |
| Editora | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/09500170241262872 |
| OpenAlex | W4401919058 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 1 |
| Referências citadas | 50 |
Job seeking is a crucial yet overlooked process through which people navigate the world of work. Yet there remains limited qualitative research examining the complex and nuanced experiences of job seekers in a contemporary labour market. This article explores 38 interviews with job-seeking women in England, all of whom were interviewed over a six-month period. Using a postfeminist sensibility, findings revealed an oscillation between empowerment and success on the one hand, and disempowerment and perceived failure on the other, including wanting to: find the ‘right’ job, but accept any job; convey an authentic self but imitate what they think employers want; negotiate salaries, but accept pay cuts; emulate ‘successful’ behaviours, but experience doubt, uncertainty and negativity. This article contributes to the sociological practice of employment, identifying that through this oscillation, women experience a form of postfeminist precarity that starts from the outset of job seeking
Business · Economics · Labour economics · Political science · Seekers · Sensibility · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Work-Family Balance Challenges
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Postfeminism, Femininities and Organization Studies
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A Labour of Love
The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism
Why Do Unemployed Americans Blame Themselves While Israelis Blame the System
Effectiveness of job search interventions
Gendered hybridity in leadership identities
Postfeminism as a critical tool for gender and language study
One size fits all? What counts as quality practice in (reflexive) thematic analysis
Postfeminist media culture
Ambivalent aspirations
A Postfeminist Sensibility at Work
Postfeminist Stylistics, Work Femininities and Coaching
Postfeminism, Gender and Organization
The Performativity of Choice
Postfeminism, Neoliberalism and A ‘Successfully’ Balanced Femininity in Celebrity CEO Autobiographies
The postfeminist ideology at work
Women's health magazines and postfeminist healthism
The gendered nature of self-help
Persistent Paradoxes, Pragmatic Postfeminism
Postfeminism as Coping Strategy
Notes on the Perfect
Using thematic analysis in psychology
The affective, cultural and psychic life of postfeminism
Postfeminism, popular feminism and neoliberal feminism? Sarah Banet-Weiser, Rosalind Gill and Catherine Rottenberg in conversation
Constructing Unemployed Job Seekers as Professional Workers
Serial Interviews
The Amazing Bounce-Backable Woman
The Unstructured Interactive Interview
Challenges and Contradictions in the 'Normalising' of Precarious Work
Seeking a role
Young women on the margins of the labour market
The Gendered Impacts of Covid-19
Choosing health
| Obras citantes distintas | 1 |
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| Citações por ano | 1 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Velocidade de citação | current |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 1 |