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Rethinking Unemployment and the Work Ethic: Beyond the ´Quasi-Titmuss´ Paradigm
A. Dunn
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Description for Rethinking Unemployment and the Work Ethic: Beyond the ´Quasi-Titmuss´ Paradigm
Hardcover. This book investigates unemployed people's attitudes to employment. It reviews literature, identifies gaps in research and then presents findings from several new empirical studies. Num Pages: 240 pages, 18 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JFFA; JHBL; JKSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
While recent Labour and coalition governments have insisted that many unemployed people prefer state benefits to a job, and have tightened the rules attached to claiming unemployment benefits, mainstream academic research repeatedly concludes that only a tiny minority of unemployed benefit claimants are not strongly committed to employment. Andrew Dunn argues that the discrepancy can be explained by UK social policy academia leaving important questions unanswered. Dunn presents findings from four empirical studies which, in contrast to earlier research, focused on unemployed people's attitudes towards unattractive jobs and included interviews with people in welfare-to-work organisations. All four studies' findings were ... Read more
While recent Labour and coalition governments have insisted that many unemployed people prefer state benefits to a job, and have tightened the rules attached to claiming unemployment benefits, mainstream academic research repeatedly concludes that only a tiny minority of unemployed benefit claimants are not strongly committed to employment. Andrew Dunn argues that the discrepancy can be explained by UK social policy academia leaving important questions unanswered. Dunn presents findings from four empirical studies which, in contrast to earlier research, focused on unemployed people's attitudes towards unattractive jobs and included interviews with people in welfare-to-work organisations. All four studies' findings were ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
234
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137032102
SKU
V9781137032102
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Ref
99-15
About A. Dunn
Andrew Dunn is Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Lincoln, UK. He has published articles in high-ranking academic journals, including Work, Employment and Society and Journal of Social Policy. He was awarded the 2010 Social Policy and Administration 'Best Article by an Early Stage Career Researcher' prize.
Reviews for Rethinking Unemployment and the Work Ethic: Beyond the ´Quasi-Titmuss´ Paradigm
"Andrew Dunn has written the deepest inquiry I know of into unemployment in Britain. He makes clear that a life on benefits isn't just forced on people by conditions; it also reflects claimants' attitudes and choices, which vary widely. Many still view work as a choice that they need not make. Welfare reform was supposed to deny that choice, to ... Read more