Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs Paperback - 2016
by Lauren A. Rivera; Afterword by Lauren A. Rivera
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"In this riveting account of how the nation's top investment banks, consultancies, and law firms choose employees, Lauren Rivera goes inside the recruitment process, interviewing the interviewers and sitting in on their decision meetings. This eye-opening book exposes how the American elite keep the best jobs for themselves."--Frank Dobbin, author of Inventing Equal Opportunity
"Pedigree provides a rare behind-the-scenes look at the hiring processes for elite jobs. Rivera's thoughtful ethnographic observations illuminate exactly how social class matters, and how the display of cultural skills can be crucial for job seekers to gain access to elite positions. It is an eye-opening book."--Annette Lareau, University of Pennsylvania
"Rivera identifies the myriad ways that class influences every stage of the hiring process at top-tier firms, showing how it is that individuals from affluent backgrounds have come to dominate the most elite segments of the American labor market. She pulls back the curtain time and time again, revealing how processes that are apparently class, race, and gender neutral are anything but."--Elizabeth A. Armstrong, coauthor of Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality
"Pedigree sets a new standard of rigor for qualitative social-science research. Rivera shows how educational stratification in the United States is particularly pronounced and caste-like at the gateway to elite professions, and how the boundary between elite colleges and the elite firms that recruit from them is so fuzzy as to be only ceremonial."--Mitchell L. Stevens, author of Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites
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- Title Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs
- Author Lauren A. Rivera; Afterword by Lauren A. Rivera
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton University Press
- Date 2016-03-22
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780691169279 / 0691169276
- Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.5 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 3.81 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Economics - Sociological aspects, College graduates - Employment - United
- Dewey Decimal Code 331.114
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