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 [and others] -- 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.