The Trouble with Passion
how searching for fulfillment at work fosters inequality
$45.60
- Paperback
344 pages
- Release Date
8 November 2021
Summary
The Dark Side of “Follow Your Passion”: How Well-Intentioned Advice Perpetuates Inequality
Probing the ominous side of career advice to “follow your passion,” this data-driven study explains how the passion principle fails us and perpetuates inequality by class, gender, and race; and it suggests how we can reconfigure our relationships to paid work.
“Follow your passion” is a popular mantra for career decision-making in the United States. Passion-seeking see…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780520303232 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0520303237 |
| Author: | Erin Cech |
| Publisher: | University of California Press |
| Imprint: | University of California Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 344 |
| Release Date: | 8 November 2021 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 25mm |
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“As the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted many people to contemplate the meaning of their work and life, this book offers particularly relevant insights for those wanting a career change to consider how they should make career decisions and the role work should play in their life. The Trouble with Passion should also be revelatory to people who potentially shape others’ career decisions, such as educators and career counselors; those who can influence the career outcomes of people in the labor market, such as hiring managers and organization leaders; and policymakers who have the power to rectify the structural factors producing the dark side of the passion principle in the first place. I would also recommend this book to social science scholars interested in careers, passion, the meaning of work, segregation, and inequality in general.”
* Administrative Science Quarterly *“If you’re looking for a book that can offer you new insights into career choices while making you think critically about librarianship, passion, and labor, this is a recommended read.”
* College & Research Libraries *About The Author
Erin Cech
Erin A. Cech is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan. Her research investigates how seemingly benign and taken-for-granted cultural beliefs reproduce workforce inequalities.
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