Cultures of Unemployment - A Comparative Look At Long-Term Unemployment and Urban Poverty

This book presents survey data to devise a framework for a better understanding of the effects of welfare state policy on the chronically unemployed. It analyzes the personal and political worlds behind the social mechanisms behind the welfare state.

List of contents

Foreword -- Introduction -- Cultures of the Welfare State -- The Central Issues of the Study -- Empirical Study -- A Jobless Market -- Making Ends Meet -- Dealing with Time -- Looking for a Job -- The Perception of Rights and Obligations -- Analysis and Comparisons -- Cultures of Unemployment -- Homo Calculans and Homo Honoris -- A Profile of Urban Poverty -- Unemployment and the Labor Market -- Fieldwork and Data Processing -- Descriptions of the Three Research Locations -- Dutch and American Incomes Compared -- Tables from Chapter 8 (except for Table 8.1)

Summary

This book presents survey data to devise a framework for a better understanding of the effects of welfare state policy on the chronically unemployed. It analyzes the personal and political worlds behind the social mechanisms behind the welfare state.

Product details

• Authors: Godfried Engbersen, Godfried Schuyt Engbersen, Kees Schuyt, Jaap Timmer, Frans van Waarden, William Julius Wilson
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9780367161262
• ISBN: 978-0-367-16126-2
• No. of pages: 278
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General