The Career Mystique: Cracks in the American Dream

by Patricia Roehling and Phyllis Moen

Book Overview

The Career Mystique examines taken-for-granted rules of the career game-that continuous, full-time, hard work "pays off"-deeply embedded in the American Dream. Possibilities of fulfilling the career mystique are dwindling, given insecurities and risks of a global economy, strains and double demands on the job and at home, uncertainties and ambiguities around retirement. This outdated myth stands in the way of fashioning innovative policies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742528626
• ISBN13: 9780742528628
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 291 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.9"