The Experience Of Unemployment

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
The Effects of Unemployment: Experience and Response....Pages 1-16
The Media and the Politics of Interpreting Unemployment....Pages 17-28
Women’s Unemployment in the 1930s: Some Comparison with the 1980s....Pages 29-44
Change and Continuity in the Youth Labour Market: a Critical Review of Structural Explanations of Youth Unemployment1....Pages 45-60
Unemployment and Racism: Asian Youth on the Dole....Pages 61-78
School Leaver, Job Seeker, Dole Reaper: Young and Unemployed in Rural England....Pages 79-97
It’s not Fair, Is It?: Youth Unemployment, Family Relations and the Social Contract1....Pages 98-115
Polarisation, Unemployment and All Forms of Work1....Pages 116-133
His Unemployment, Her Problem: the Domestic and Marital Consequences of Male Unemployment....Pages 134-149
Recent Trends in Parasuicide (‘Attempted Suicide’) and Unemployment among Men in Edinburgh....Pages 150-167
Discipline, Training or Welfare?: the Functions of a Re-establishment Centre....Pages 168-184
Back Matter....Pages 185-204