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“It’s Not Like Chasing Chanel:” Spending Time, Investing in the Self, and Pandemic Epiphanies
The Covid-19 pandemic has greatly impacted the labor market and given rise to the Great Resignation. Drawing on a mixed methods panel study of 199 precarious and gig-based workers, we analyze how a changing conception of free time during the Covid-19 pandemic led low-wage service workers to seek mor...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9475368/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/07308884221125246 |
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author | Ravenelle, Alexandrea J. Kowalski, Ken Cai |
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description | The Covid-19 pandemic has greatly impacted the labor market and given rise to the Great Resignation. Drawing on a mixed methods panel study of 199 precarious and gig-based workers, we analyze how a changing conception of free time during the Covid-19 pandemic led low-wage service workers to seek more fulfilling careers. Whereas most workers initially perceived free time in terms of opportunity costs, they later reconceived this time as enabling an investment in personal growth, moving from “spending time” making money to “investing time” in themselves. This shift in temporal experience is expressed through the adoption of a “work passion” logic and “pandemic epiphanies” that motivated respondents to seek self-affirming and potentially more lucrative work opportunities. |
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spelling | pubmed-94753682022-09-16 “It’s Not Like Chasing Chanel:” Spending Time, Investing in the Self, and Pandemic Epiphanies Ravenelle, Alexandrea J. Kowalski, Ken Cai Work Occup Original Research Article The Covid-19 pandemic has greatly impacted the labor market and given rise to the Great Resignation. Drawing on a mixed methods panel study of 199 precarious and gig-based workers, we analyze how a changing conception of free time during the Covid-19 pandemic led low-wage service workers to seek more fulfilling careers. Whereas most workers initially perceived free time in terms of opportunity costs, they later reconceived this time as enabling an investment in personal growth, moving from “spending time” making money to “investing time” in themselves. This shift in temporal experience is expressed through the adoption of a “work passion” logic and “pandemic epiphanies” that motivated respondents to seek self-affirming and potentially more lucrative work opportunities. SAGE Publications 2022-09-15 /pmc/articles/PMC9475368/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/07308884221125246 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Original Research Article Ravenelle, Alexandrea J. Kowalski, Ken Cai “It’s Not Like Chasing Chanel:” Spending Time, Investing in the Self, and Pandemic Epiphanies |
title | “It’s Not Like Chasing Chanel:” Spending Time, Investing in the Self, and Pandemic Epiphanies |
title_full | “It’s Not Like Chasing Chanel:” Spending Time, Investing in the Self, and Pandemic Epiphanies |
title_fullStr | “It’s Not Like Chasing Chanel:” Spending Time, Investing in the Self, and Pandemic Epiphanies |
title_full_unstemmed | “It’s Not Like Chasing Chanel:” Spending Time, Investing in the Self, and Pandemic Epiphanies |
title_short | “It’s Not Like Chasing Chanel:” Spending Time, Investing in the Self, and Pandemic Epiphanies |
title_sort | “it’s not like chasing chanel:” spending time, investing in the self, and pandemic epiphanies |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9475368/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/07308884221125246 |
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