The Sociology of Unemployment

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719097908
• ISBN13: 9780719097904
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"