Mind the gaps : an ethnography of the institutions shaping Ghana's technical labor market
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation work represents an 18-month ethnography studying the experience of occupational mobility—a process by which individuals pursue and create jobs that may change their socioeconomic and professional status, career trajectory, and/or income—into technology-related fields. I pursued my fieldwork in a theoretically rich, institutionally unsupportive, and technology-emergent setting—with over 200 local labor market actors (i.e., employers, entrepreneurs, a start-up labor market intermediary, and job aspirants)—from 2019--2023 to observe over time how aspiring technical workers and entrepreneurs navigate the expectations of themselves, their culture, and their respective key stakeholders, in their pursuit of achieving occupational mobility and venture scale. Through my fieldwork, I show how aspirants enter into the technical labor market in some cases with "expectation gaps" and others with the burden of "negative social capital" that affect their decision-making processes, personal goals, and relative performance in the labor market.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2023; ©2023 |
| Publication date | 2023; 2023 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Kusimo, Abisola Coretta |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Delp, Scott |
| Degree supervisor | Valentine, Melissa (Melissa A.) |
| Thesis advisor | Delp, Scott |
| Thesis advisor | Valentine, Melissa (Melissa A.) |
| Thesis advisor | Eesley, Charles |
| Degree committee member | Eesley, Charles |
| Associated with | Stanford University, School of Engineering |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Mechanical Engineering |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Abisola Coretta Kusimo. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Mechanical Engineering. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2023. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/zv962wq0600 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2023 by Abisola Coretta Kusimo
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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