Actively Seeking Work?
Title | Actively Seeking Work? PDF eBook |
Author | Desmond King |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 1995-03-15 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0226436225 |
Integrating archival and documentary materials with an analysis of the sources of political support for work-welfare programmes, this work examines the reasons behind the lack of effective training and work programmes for the unemployed in Great Britain and the United States.
The Politics of Unemployment Policy in Britain
Title | The Politics of Unemployment Policy in Britain PDF eBook |
Author | Jay Wiggan |
Publisher | Policy Press |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2024-07 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1447366115 |
Advancing a class-centred approach, this book provides an account of the evolution of social security and employment policy and governance in Britain between 1973 and 2023.
Tackling Unemployment
Title | Tackling Unemployment PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Layard |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 553 |
Release | 1999-04-12 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0230379206 |
Richard Layard is one of Britain's foremost applied economists, whose work has had a profound impact on the policy debate in Britain and abroad. This book contains his most influential articles on the subject of unemployment. It is published along with a companion volume Inequality , which deals with these topics and with economic transition. Unemployment explains what causes unemployment and proposes remedies to reduce it. There is a strong focus on how unemployed people are treated and how this affects unemployment - including Layard's well-known recommendation of a job-guarantee for long term unemployed people. Other key topics covered are the effect of unions and wage bargaining, the effect of low skill, and the possible role of rigid employment laws. The book opens with Richard Layard's personal credo Why I became an Economist .
Unemployment and the State in Britain
Title | Unemployment and the State in Britain PDF eBook |
Author | Stephanie Ward |
Publisher | |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | HISTORY |
ISBN | 9781781705995 |
An important and original contribution to understandings of the 1930s. Through a comparative case study of south Wales and the north-east of England, the book explores the impact of the highly controversial means test, the relationship between the unemployed and the government and the nature of some of the largest protests of the interwar period.
Young People and Long-Term Unemployment
Title | Young People and Long-Term Unemployment PDF eBook |
Author | Marco Giugni |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 169 |
Release | 2020-12-30 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1000327701 |
Young People and Long-Term Unemployment examines the consequences of long-term unemployment for the personal, social, and political lives of young adults aged 18–34 across four European cities: Cologne (Germany), Geneva (Switzerland), Lyon (France), and Turin (Italy). Adopting a multidimensional theoretical framework aiming to bring together insights based on the contextual (macro), organizational (meso), and individual (micro) levels, and combining quantitative and qualitative data and analyses, it reaches a number of important conclusions. First, our study shows that the experience of long-term unemployment has a negative impact on different dimensions of young people’s lives. When compared to employed youth, unemployed youth are less satisfied with their lives, more isolated, and less independent financially. Second, however, there are important variations across the four cities. This means that, in spite of widespread retrenchments, in some places the welfare state still acts as a buffer against unemployment. Third, although young unemployed people participate in politics equally if not slightly more than employed youth, the young unemployed are often disconnected from politics. This is so even when they have important grievances to express in the face of high youth unemployment, precarious working conditions, and grim future perspectives on the labor market. This book will be useful for scholars interested in unemployment politics and youth politics, researchers and teachers in political science, sociology, and social psychology.
Debating Unemployment Policy
Title | Debating Unemployment Policy PDF eBook |
Author | Laurent Bernhard |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 351 |
Release | 2019-05-02 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1108497519 |
Considers the policy debates surrounding unemployment in Western Europe after the outbreak of the Great Recession.
The Politics of Unemployment in Europe
Title | The Politics of Unemployment in Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Marco Giugni |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2016-03-03 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1317019849 |
This book offers a state-of-the-art discussion of the political issues surrounding unemployment in Europe. Its unique combination offers both a policy and institutional perspective, whilst studying the viewpoint of individual civil society members engaging in collective action on the issue of joblessness. It is the result of Marco Giugni’s three year cross-national comparative research project, financed by the European Commission, united with hand picked contributions from invited experts. Throughout his study he focuses on how the EU approaches national unemployment, the main national differences in talk about unemployment and unemployment policy, and how the representatives of the unemployed produce and coordinate demands in relation to unemployment policy. This book contains a number of genuinely cross-national chapters along with sections on specific national cases, namely the UK, Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and Sweden.