Tracing Behavioral Changes among Discouraged Workers: What Happens to the Work Ethic?
- 1 April 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 76 (2) , 531-543
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1995.76.2.531
Abstract
Material from an ethnographic case study of 102 randomly selected blue-collar workers who experienced job loss in the 1980s was examined, with a focus on a subgroup of 11 who became “discouraged” and withdrew from the labor force. Changes in the job-search behavior and attitudes of the discouraged workers are traced, and theoretical explanations for their resignation and withdrawal are explored.Keywords
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