كتاب
Rethinking unemployment and the work ethic: beyond the 'quasi-Titmuss' paradigm
العنوان: | Rethinking unemployment and the work ethic: beyond the 'quasi-Titmuss' paradigm |
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المؤلفون: | Dunn, Andrew, 1973- author. |
سنة النشر: | 2014 |
وصف مادي: | xii, 222 pages ; 23 cm |
مصطلحات موضوعية: | Unemployment -- Great Britain., Unemployment insurance -- Great Britain., Work ethic -- Great Britain., Public welfare -- Great Britain., Public welfare., Social policy., Unemployment., Unemployment insurance., Work ethic., BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, Poverty & unemployment -- United Kingdom, Great Britain., Society., Sociology: work & labour -- United Kingdom, Great Britain., Welfare & benefit systems -- United Kingdom, Great Britain. |
جغرافية الموضوع: | Great Britain -- Social policy., Great Britain. |
الوصف: | While recent Labour and coalition governments have insisted that many unemployed people prefer state benefits to a job, and have tightened the rules attached to claiming unemployment benefits, mainstream academic research repeatedly concludes that only a tiny minority of unemployed benefit claimants are not strongly committed to employment. Andrew Dunn argues that the discrepancy can be explained by UK social policy academia leaving important questions unanswered. Dunn presents findings from four empirical studies which, in contrast to earlier research, focused on unemployed people's attitudes towards unattractive jobs and included interviews with people in welfare-to-work organisations. All four studies' findings were consistent with the view that many unemployed benefit claimants prefer living on benefits to undertaking jobs which would increase their income, but which they find unattractive. Thus, the studies gave support to politicians' view about the need to tighten benefit rules. |
ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | 1. Introduction -- 2. The Academic Debate about Unemployment and Employment Commitment -- 3. Researching Employment Commitment -- 4. The Interviews with Employed and Unemployed People -- 5. Who Agrees that 'Having Almost any Job is Better than being Unemployed'? -- 6. What do People who Help Long-Term JSA Claimants into Employment say about their Clients' Attitude to Work and Job Search Behaviour? -- 7. Summary and Conclusion. |
Original Identifier: | ocn881418199 (PromptCat)40024283008 |
نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
اللغة: | English |
ردمك: | 978-1-137-03210-2 1-137-03210-3 |
حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.014251752.6 |
قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
ردمك: | 9781137032102 1137032103 |
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