Unemployment and Government - Genealogies of the Social

Klappentext This book follows the invention and transformation of unemployment! understood as a historically specific site of regulation. Taking key aspects of the history of unemployment in Britain as its focus! it argues that the ways in which authorities have defined and sought to manage the jobless have been remarkably varied. The book examines such institutionalized practices as the labor bureau! unemployment insurance! and the present "New Deal" as "technologies" of power. The result is a challenge to our thinking about welfare states. Zusammenfassung This book charts the changing definitions and problematizations of unemployment in Britain over the last century. Utilizing Foucault's work on governmentality! the book uses historical and statistical material to illustrate the relationship between employment! social freedom and the welfare state. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The discovery of unemployment; 2. Inventing unemployment: the birth of the labour exchange; 3. Governing unemployment as a 'risk'; 4. Governing through the long-term unemployed: unemployment between the wars; 5. Unemployment and its spaces; 6. Governing divided societies: the new deal.

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• Authors: William Walters, William (Carleton University Walters
• Assisted by: Chris Arup (Editor), Martin Chanock (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.04.2000
• EAN: 9780521643337
• ISBN: 978-0-521-64333-7
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society; Cambridge Studies in Law and S
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories