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Cultures of Unemployment

A Comparative Look at Long-Term Unemployment and Urban Poverty

Godfried Engbersen author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:23rd May '19

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The "cultures" of unemployed people in the United States and abroad are complex, varied and offer explanatory power when analyzed, as they are here, in a systematic way. The authors use case studies and survey data to devise a framework for a better understanding of the effects of welfare state policy on the chronically unemployed. They analyze the personal and political worlds behind the social mechanisms behind the welfare state. Comparing the results of this study with important ethnographic studies conducted in the United States provides unique insight into the differences and similarities between the American welfare state and the Netherlands, a highly developed European welfare state. The foreword by U.S. scholar William Julius Wilson emphasizes the universality of the method and findings presented here.

ISBN: 9780367011390

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 521g

287 pages