Binding: Hardcover
Description: A startling discovery that job market success after college is largely random forces a reappraisal of education opportunity and the American dream. As a gateway to economic opportunity a college degree is viewed by many as America's great equalizer. And it's true: wealthier more connected and seemingly better - qualified students earn exactly the same pay as their less privileged peers. Yet the reasons why may have little to do with bootstraps or self - improvement it might just be dumb luck. That's what sociologist Jessi Streib proposes in The Accidental Equalizer a conclusion she reaches after interviewing dozens of hiring agents and job - seeking graduates. Streib finds that luck shapes the hiring process from start to finish in a way that limits class privilege in the job market. Employers hide information about how to get ahead and force students to guess which jobs pay the most and how best to obtain them. Without clear routes to success graduates from all class backgrounds face the same odds at high pay. The Accidental Equalizer is a frank appraisal of how this luckocracy works and its implications for the future of higher education and the middle class. Although this system is far from eliminating American inequality Streib shows that it may just be the best opportunity structure we have for better and for worse.
Title: The Accidental Equalizer How Luck Determines Pay After College
Author(s): Streib Jessi
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226829319
Pages: 256 Pages, 3 Tables
Publication Date: 11/16/2023
Category: Higher & Further Education, Tertiary Education