1st Edition
Youth Unemployment and the Family Voices of Disordered Times
List of Tables and Figures Preface 1. Introduction: Family, History and Biography 2. Local Labour Markets and the Household: Change and Flux 3. Independence and Work 4. Disorder in Time and Place 5. The Moral Community 6. Conclusion Appendices Notes Bibliography Index of Informants Name Index Subject Index
Biography
Patricia Allatt (at the time of the original publication of the book), Reader at Teesside Business School, Teesside Polytechnic.
Susan Yeandle, Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociological Studies and Director of CIRCLE, the Centre for International Research on Care Labour and Equalities, University of Sheffield.
‘Allatt and Yeandle’ s book is a fine example of contemporary ethnographic research which balances attention to detail about values, emotions and actions with social anthropologist’s skill and interest in broader theoretical issues. The authors explain more vividly and convincingly than any other text how persistent unemployment erodes the social and moral fabric of private life.’
-Professor Ken Roberts, Liverpool University
