White-collar opt-out: How “good jobs” fail elite workers (Record no. 528331)
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| Personal name | Yavaş, Mustafa |
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| Title | White-collar opt-out: How “good jobs” fail elite workers |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc | American Sociological Review |
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| Extent | 89(4), Aug, 2024: p.761-788 |
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| Summary, etc | Why do elite professionals leave hard-earned, privileged corporate careers? This article examines an underappreciated case of employee turnover, white-collar opt-out, which involves resignations that may not immediately lead to a similar job or life experience, but are instead followed by alternatives to fast-track careers, including seeking another occupation, stay-at-home parenting, or pursuit of leisure and self-exploration. Drawing on 70 in-depth interviews with Turkish professional-managerial employees of transnational corporations located in both Istanbul and New York City, I examine their narratives about the quality of working life and their decisions to opt out through the lenses of worker consent and alienation. I identify the lack of work-life balance and fulfillment with one’s labor as drivers of opting out, showing how these push factors, combined with various pull factors of non-working life and safety nets, encourage elite workers to overcome status anxiety and abandon corporate careers. The article extends labor process theory insights into high-paying corporate occupations, illuminating how so-called “good jobs” may produce a relatively low quality of working life. It also exposes the inherent limits of resource-centered approaches to inequality, showing how alienating work can undermine the quality of life of even upwardly mobile, high-skilled workers.- Reproduced https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00031224241263497 |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Opting out, Alienation, Consent, Working life, Turnover. |
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