Ofer Sharone
Biography
Ofer Sharone is the Mitsubishi Career Development Professor and an Assistant Professor in the Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Sharone’s research examines the interplay between varied labor market and workplace institutions, on the one hand, and workers’ practices and experiences, on the other hand. His studies are primarily cross-national comparisons and utilize in-depth interviews and participant observations. Sharone’s current research compares the effects of different labor market institutions on the experiences of unemployed white-collar job seekers in Israel and the United States. His teaching interests include the sociology of work, economic sociology, negotiations, and social theory. He has practiced international law in San Francisco and Japan.
Sharone holds a BA in economics from the University of Illinois; a PhD in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley; and a JD from Harvard Law School.
Sharone’s research examines the interplay between varied labor market and workplace institutions, on the one hand, and workers’ practices and experiences, on the other hand. His studies are primarily cross-national comparisons and utilize in-depth interviews and participant observations. Sharone’s current research compares the effects of different labor market institutions on the experiences of unemployed white-collar job seekers in Israel and the United States. His teaching interests include the sociology of work, economic sociology, negotiations, and social theory. He has practiced international law in San Francisco and Japan.
Sharone holds a BA in economics from the University of Illinois; a PhD in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley; and a JD from Harvard Law School.
Selected Publications
“Why Unemployed Americans Blame Themselves While Israelis Blame the System.” 2013. Social Forces. 91(4): 1429-1450. Selected for publication in the “Best Paper Proceedings” of the 2011 Academy of Management. (2013)
Flawed System/Flawed Self: Job Searching and Unemployment Experiences. 2013. University of Chicago Press (expected release in November). (2013)
“Constructing Unemployed Job Seekers as Professional Workers: The Depoliticizing Work-Game of Job Searching.” Qualitative Sociology. 30(4): 403-416. (2007)
“Berkeley’s Betrayal: Wages and Working Conditions at Cal,” co-authored with Gretchen Purser and Amy Schalet. Berkeley: University Labor Research Project. 2004. Excerpted in Introduction to Sociology, edited by Anthony Giddens, Mitchell Duneier, and Richard Appelbaum. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. (2005)
“Engineering Overwork: Bell-Curve Management at a High-Tech Firm,” in Fighting for Time: Shifting Boundaries of Work and Social Life, edited by Cynthia Fuchs Epstein and Arne L. Kalleberg. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. (2004)
Flawed System/Flawed Self: Job Searching and Unemployment Experiences. 2013. University of Chicago Press (expected release in November). (2013)
“Constructing Unemployed Job Seekers as Professional Workers: The Depoliticizing Work-Game of Job Searching.” Qualitative Sociology. 30(4): 403-416. (2007)
“Berkeley’s Betrayal: Wages and Working Conditions at Cal,” co-authored with Gretchen Purser and Amy Schalet. Berkeley: University Labor Research Project. 2004. Excerpted in Introduction to Sociology, edited by Anthony Giddens, Mitchell Duneier, and Richard Appelbaum. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. (2005)
“Engineering Overwork: Bell-Curve Management at a High-Tech Firm,” in Fighting for Time: Shifting Boundaries of Work and Social Life, edited by Cynthia Fuchs Epstein and Arne L. Kalleberg. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. (2004)
Link: http://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty/detail.php?in_spseqno=41284
