Bookshelf
Alumni and faculty members who would like to have their books considered for this listing should contact Stacey Himmelberger, editor of Hamilton magazine. This list, which dates back to 2018, is updated periodically with books appearing alphabetically on the date of entry.
The Tolls of Uncertainty: How Privilege and the Guilt Gap Shape Unemployment in America by Sarah Damaske ’99
October 1, 2021
Tags Alumni Book
(Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2021)
Drawing on interviews with 100 men and women who have lost jobs, the author examines the ways unemployment shapes families, finances, health, and the job hunt. The book offers insights into the “guilt gap,” where women who have lost jobs place higher levels of blame on themselves, and class privilege that gives some an advantage, while leaving others at the mercy of an underfunded unemployment system. The author is an associate professor of sociology and labor and employment relations at Pennsylvania State University.
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