The sociology of unemployment

Herausgeber: Boland, Tom; Griffin, Ray

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Produktbeschreibung

The sociology of unemployment is an analysis of the experience and governance of unemployment. By considering unemployment as more than just the absence of work, the book explores unemployment as a distinctive experience created by the welfare state. Each chapter explores an aspect of the experience or governance of unemployment, beginning with how people talk about their experience of being unemployed, individually and collectively, then moving on to the places of unemployment, and the processes, policies and forms of the social welfare system. Clear explanations of classic theories are explored and extended, all against the backdrop of new primary research. Chapter by chapter, The sociology of unemployment challenges the 'deprivation theory of unemployment' which dominates sociology, psychology and social policy, by focusing on how governmental power forms the experience of unemployment. As a result, the book is both an introductory text on the sociology of unemployment and a fresh, critical perspective. It will interest students of sociology and related disciplines, from undergraduates to post-graduates and academics interested in unemployment and governmentality. It will be equally relevant to journalists, civil servants, politicians and activists.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 557g
• ISBN-13: 9780719097904
• ISBN-10: 0719097908
• Artikelnr.: 42462070

Autorenporträt

Tom Boland is Lecturer in Sociology at Waterford Institute of Technology Ray Griffin is Lecturer in Strategy at Waterford Institute of Technology

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction - Tom Boland and Ray Griffin Part I: Being unemployed 2.
Talk: Nothing to be done - Tom Boland 3. Dialog: Focus groups with young
and mature unemployed - Jennifer Yeager and Jonathon Culleton 4. City:
Redundant workers, forgotten citizens? The case of Waterford Crystal - Josh
Lalor 5. Places: Graceful living: The experience of unemployment and the
built environment - John O'Brien 6. Rural: Beyond the deprivation theory:
examining rural experience - Gordon B. Cooke, Deidre Hutchings, Jimmy
Donaghey and Isik U. Zeytinoglu Part II: Becoming unemployed 7. Forms: Up
one: observations on decoding a form of unemployment - Ray Griffin 8.
Spaces: Autoethnographies of Irish social welfare offices - Tom Boland and
Ray Griffin 9. Job-seeking: Making a self for the labour market - Tom
Boland 10. Experiencing activisation: Ireland's new pathway? - Tom Boland
Part III: Knowing unemployment 11. Media: Nothing to be said - Tom Boland,
Rose Shearer and Aisling Tuite 12. Statistics: On the statistical
composition of unemployment - Ray Griffin and John O'Brien Conclusion Index