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Delapaix 1 year ago. Or does it, as Allison Pugh asks in this brilliantly illuminating book, influence how we address the possibility of grievous disappointment in intimate life too? Do we hedge our bets in love and work, or trustingly sacrifice in one or both realms, and risk feeling betrayed when a contract turns out to be 'unrequited'?

The reader will find eye-opening answers on this central issue of our age. But people have adapted to insecurity differently, depending on whether they are stably employed, have been laid off, or had to relocate. The Tumbleweed Society vividly describes the diversity of experiences that characterize the new era of precarity through the voices of those who have experienced a variety of work arrangements and family formations.

She interviewed 88 parents of teenagers, mostly women, representing highly educated job changers, moderately educated job losers, and the moderately educated stably employed. Those at the top have the privilege of choice, riding the fluid economy for better opportunities.

At the same time, they build a "moral wall" of stability around their marriages. Pugh successfully weaves together short quotes and stories, creating an intimate connection between the reader and her participants, and since she has 80 interviews, there is rich variation. One of the remarkable strengths of the book lies in Pugh's ability to consider a complex set of interlinking characteristics of her interviewees and generalize from them.

Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Academic Skip to main content. Search Start Search. The interviews are interesting, although spread out over the course of the book. An interviewee comes and goes and you have to remember who they are and pick up their story and the author's new point. I prefer the presentation of a Studs Terkel book of oral history, where you get the entire interview in one shot.

In the end, it seemed to me that most people just put a good face on their situations, whatever they were. I wasn't sure they were telling the author how they really felt.

Or, I'm wondering if people's personalities determine their situation more than external things like jobs or relationships. I just can't believe that most people consider an itinerant lifestyle, whether forced or chosen, as a positive form of independence. I think most people crave connections at work and at home.

This seems especially true in the case of single parents I don't know anyone who assumed this role for its "independence. Nov 02, Biblio Files takingadayoff rated it really liked it. There have been so many good books recently about the plight of the American worker and massive financial inequality worldwide. According to The Economist, the wealth of the top 0. The Tumbleweed Society looks at the worker from a different angle.

Sociologist Alison Pugh investigates how job insecurity is affecting workers' personal lives apart from work. Pugh interviews dozens of workers, mostly parents, to find out about their marriages There have been so many good books recently about the plight of the American worker and massive financial inequality worldwide. Pugh interviews dozens of workers, mostly parents, to find out about their marriages and relationships, their attitudes toward child rearing, friendships, taking care of sick parents.

Do the employers' attitudes that workers are disposable seep into the workers' self-regard? Do workers who move from job to job also move from relationship to relationship? By and large, Pugh finds that people are not only as committed to their children and partners as they've ever been, but they also tend to be loyal to their employers, despite layoffs, downsizing, benefit cuts, and outsourcing.

If for nothing more than personal pride, they do the best jobs they can. Fear of losing their jobs doesn't seem to embitter them, maybe because they are resigned to the inevitability of job insecurity.

One thing that Pugh doesn't seem to address directly is how age plays into the equation. Those she interviewed varied widely in social class, education, and geography, as well as age, but since she wanted to concentrate on people who were parents of teens, the youngest subjects were well into their thirties and most older than that. I wonder if growing up entirely within the era of job insecurity will create a Soviet-style class of workers who do as little as possible, or if the work ethic is some kind of a national characteristic that will endure?

Feb 05, Christine Zibas rated it really liked it. This book addresses an important topic that, frankly, not enough people are talking about these days. While commentators focus on the economic crisis and recovery, companies and stock prices, too few examine the effect it has had on working people at every level except, perhaps, to count up the officially unemployed. This book goes deeper, into the issue of job insecurity, which many would argue is simply a modern day fact of life.

While it may be an omnipresent condition for many at a time wh This book addresses an important topic that, frankly, not enough people are talking about these days. While it may be an omnipresent condition for many at a time when corporations have sacrificed loyalty to employees for corporate profit , perhaps the greater question is why do US employees accept this fate? Why so little push back, when it's been proven that this lack of loyalty on the part of business has not necessarily resulted in stronger companies?

Why do Americans continue to exhibit a strong work ethic in the face of so little guarantee from their employers? Moreover, what impact is this having on families, spouses, children, and those who need care?

It's a big topic, and Sociologist Allison Pugh uses a study of real world workers, both secure and insecure, to address these topics and more. What she and her study subjects have to say about work, family, and life is compelling and thought-provoking. While this is a solidly academic treatise, it's also important for the average working American.

Not only does it speak to the current economic dilemma workers find themselves in, it sheds some light on the fact that this situation is not a foregone conclusion either. Jan 02, Jason rated it liked it. The Tumbleweed Society by Allison J. Pugh associate professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia is a useful examination of the modern American, middle class work place. The author, rightly in many ways, expresses the modern work place, particularly in corporations, as one where employees have few rights and the employers have few obligations.

As a work to study among a broad group of individuals, how these changes are effecting them, this book is a good start, and a decent continuation The Tumbleweed Society by Allison J.

As a work to study among a broad group of individuals, how these changes are effecting them, this book is a good start, and a decent continuation of an academic discussion, from a sociological perspective.

The 80 individuals interviewed and examined here are a decent mix of the modern workplace, and the book does show how the workplace effects private lives as well. As someone who has lived, to some degree, a similar story to some of the individuals interviewed here, their stories do have a compelling angle.

Yet, the interviewees could be placed in greater context, with each other, to form a more complete picture. This is a fine book for what it is: an investigation into how changes that have happened in the workplace, particularly since the 90's technological revolution, and retreat of large scale manufacturing, have effected many. This is an academic work that should be understood from within the discipline of sociology.

A general reader might appreciate a more interdisciplinary approach. Dec 07, Lynn rated it really liked it. Allison J. Pugh is a sociologist who studied The Tumbleweed Society, one in which work is temporary and poorly paid. She wondered if itinerant work changed social relationships and society also. She found people had more itinerant relationships with friends, marriages often ended and children lived with different parents or had step parents, etc.

All caused by temporary life situations. Employers also had few obligations to employees and could leave the area quickly. May 17, Tina Panik rated it it was ok Shelves: explains-the-world-to-me , non-fiction.

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