The sociology of unemployment / edited by Tom Boland and Ray Griffin.

ISBN:

9781784992316

Title:

Author:

Boland, T. (Tom), editor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 pages)

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 [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.

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Subject Term:

Unemployment -- Ireland -- Waterford -- Social conditions.

Geographic Term:

Added Author:

Griffin, Ray (Writer on strategic planning),

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

http://ezproxy.angliss.edu.au/login?url=http://ezproxy.angliss.edu.au/login?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2649419

Publication Date:

2015

Publication Information:

[Place of publication not identified] :

Manchester University Press,

2015.

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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; 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, to the places of unemployment, and on to 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.

Author Notes

Ray Griffin is Lecturer in Strategy at Waterford Institute of Technology