| The Experience of Unemployment 1986 Edition Contributor(s): Waton, A. (Editor), Allen, S. (Editor), Purcell, K. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0333396936 ISBN-13: 9780333396933 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 1986 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Business & Economics | Labor - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations |
| Dewey: 331 |
| Series: Explorations in Sociology. |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.94 lbs) 204 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Increasingly high unemployment has brought with it a multitude of consequences affecting those without jobs and, beyond them, their families, friends and communities. This book reports findings from original research. It explores, often in the words of the unemployed and others involved, what life without a job is like. It challenges many widely held beliefs about the unemployed - that they are workshy, price themselves out of jobs or earn money illegally on the side - and explores where such misconceptions come from. It reveals the inherent contradictions involved in trying to search for work whilst coping with the experience of unemployment. |