The sociology of unemployment / Tom Boland and Ray Griffin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boland, Tom, editor.

Griffin, Ray (Writer on strategic planning), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Unemployment.

Unemployment--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016.

Summary:

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, this book explores unemployment as a distinctive experience created by the welfare state.

Contents:

Talk : nothing to be done / Tom Boland

Dialogue : focus groups with young and mature unemployed / Jennifer Yeager and Jonathan Culleton

City : redundant workers, forgotten citizens? The case of Waterford Crystal / Josh Lalor

Place : graceful living : the experience of unemployment and the built environment / John O'Brien

Rural : beyond deprivation theory : examining rural experience / Gordon B. Cooke ... [et al.]

Forms : up one : observations on decoding a form of unemployment / Ray Griffin

Space : autoethnographies of Irish social welfare offices / Tom Boland and Ray Griffin

Job-seeking : making a self for the labour market / Tom Boland

Activisation : experiencing activisation : Ireland's new pathway? / Tom Boland

Media : nothing to be said : the underlying structure of 'news' about unemployment / Tom Boland, Rose Shearer and Aisling Tuite

Statistics : on the statistical composition of unemployment / John O'Brien and Ray Griffin

Afterword : unemployment : a problem of government / Tom Boland and Ray Griffin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 23, 2015).

ISBN:

9781784992316

1784992313

9780719097911

0719097916

9781781708903

1781708908