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The Experience of Unemployment
. Ed(S): Allen, Sheila; Etc.; Purcell, Kate (Research Fellow, Institute For Employment Reasearch, University Of Warwick); Waton, Alan (Lecturer In So
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Hardback. Editor(s): Allen, Sheila; etc.; Purcell, Kate (Research Fellow, Institute for Employment Reasearch, University of Warwick); Waton, Alan (Lecturer in Sociology, University of Bradford); Wood, Stephen (Lecturer in Industrial Relations, London School of Economics). Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 430.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
215
Condition
New
Number of Pages
204
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333396933
SKU
V9780333396933
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99-15
About . Ed(S): Allen, Sheila; Etc.; Purcell, Kate (Research Fellow, Institute For Employment Reasearch, University Of Warwick); Waton, Alan (Lecturer In So
SHEILA ALLEN is Research Professor of Sociology at the University of Bradford. She has published extensively in the areas of ethnic relations, gender and work. ALAN WATON is Pro-Vice Chancellor and Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Bradford. He is particularly interested in problems of analysing power in industrial societies and is currently engaged in research on ethnic ... Read more
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