Smith, David N.Muneton, Laura Melissa2024-11-252024-11-252022-08-312022http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:18465https://hdl.handle.net/1808/35674Introduction:Considering the market dynamics and wealth disparities left by the 2008 recession, and the endurance of capital accumulation strategies that center on speculative appreciation, this study analyzed potential employment outcome heterogeneity using homeownership status as a relative measure of class advantage during COVID-19, to conduct sub-group demographic and occupational analysis using a multinomial logistic regression analysis. Method and Measures: The data from the study included 40,477 individuals in the civilian non-institutional population from the Community Population Survey (CPS), between the ages of 16-85. Differentiated employment outcomes, operationalized into six possible events were utilized as the dependent variables which included: essential work, telework, involuntary and voluntary unemployment, and not in labor force (NILF) due to either household duties or some duty unrelated to illness or schooling. Results: Homeowners, between 2020 and 2021, regardless of race, gender, and occupational location, did have a relative income and telework employment advantage compared to renters, thereby confirming a partial relative class advantage. Although homeowners did have a partial employment advantage, the greater likelihood of unemployment and not in labor force outcomes for homeowners shows that they still suffered from employment precarity thus emphasizing the potentially conditional nature of class advantage for workers at higher-income occupational positions as well as the occupational and class based disadvantage that exists for renters who were more likely to be essential workers and to have less autonomy in determining life and occupational conditions.134 pagesenCopyright held by the author.Social researchLabor economicsWomen's studiesCOVID-19Labor InequalityRace Class and GenderSocial Structures of AccumulationSocial TheoryWhose Work is Essential? Rethinking Class in a Time of CrisisThesis0000-0002-4939-5387