{"product_id":"making-the-cut-david-pedulla-9780691175102","title":"Making the Cut: Hiring Decisions, Bias, and the Consequences of Nonstandard, Mismatched, and Precarious Employment","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn in-depth look at how employers today perceive and evaluate job applicants with nonstandard or precarious employment histories\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMillions of workers today labor in nontraditional situations involving part-time work, temporary agency employment, and skills underutilization or face the precariousness of long-term unemployment. To date, research has largely focused on how these experiences shape workers' well-being, rather than how hiring agents perceive and treat job applicants who have moved through these positions. Shifting the focus from workers to hiring agents, \u003ci\u003eMaking the Cut\u003c\/i\u003e explores how key gatekeepers--HR managers, recruiters, and talent acquisition specialists--evaluate workers with nonstandard, mismatched, or precarious employment experience. Factoring in the social groups to which workers belong--such as their race and gender--David Pedulla shows how workers get jobs, how the hiring process unfolds, who makes the cut, and who does not. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on a field experiment examining hiring decisions in four occupational groups and in-depth interviews with hiring agents in the United States, Pedulla documents and unpacks three important discoveries. Hiring professionals extract distinct meanings from different types of employment experiences; the effects of nonstandard, mismatched, and precarious employment histories for workers' job outcomes are not all the same; and the race and gender of workers intersect with their employment histories to shape which workers get called back for jobs. Indeed, hiring professionals use group-based stereotypes to weave divergent narratives or \"stratified stories\" about workers with similar employment experiences. The result is a complex set of inequalities in the labor market. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLooking at bias and discrimination, social exclusion in the workplace, and the changing nature of work, \u003ci\u003eMaking the Cut \u003c\/i\u003eprobes the hiring process and offers a clearer picture of the underpinnings of getting a job in the new economy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Pedulla\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691175101\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691175102\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/21\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.90d","brand":"David Pedulla","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45478845546751,"sku":"9780691175102","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9662e40e-f9e1-414b-9a10-4c93f7e0c366.jpg?v=1715935838","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/making-the-cut-david-pedulla-9780691175102","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}