1st Edition

Cultures Of Unemployment A Comparative Look At Long-term Unemployment And Urban Poverty

By Godfried Engbersen Copyright 1993
    288 Pages
    by Routledge

    287 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    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)