Description
Book SynopsisAn analysis of the experience and governance of unemployment
Table of Contents1. Introduction – Tom Boland and Ray Griffin
Part I: Being unemployed
2. Talk: Nothing to be done – Tom Boland
3. Dialog: Focus groups with young and mature unemployed – Jennifer Yeager and Jonathon Culleton
4. City: Redundant workers, forgotten citizens? The case of Waterford Crystal – Josh Lalor
5. Places: Graceful living: The experience of unemployment and the built environment – John O’Brien
6. Rural: Beyond the deprivation theory: examining rural experience – Gordon B. Cooke, Deidre Hutchings, Jimmy Donaghey and Isik U. Zeytinoglu
Part II: Becoming unemployed
7. Forms: Up one: observations on decoding a form of unemployment – Ray Griffin
8. Spaces: Autoethnographies of Irish social welfare offices – Tom Boland and Ray Griffin
9. Job-seeking: Making a self for the labour market – Tom Boland
10. Experiencing activisation: Ireland’s new pathway? – Tom Boland
Part III: Knowing unemployment
11. Media: Nothing to be said – Tom Boland, Rose Shearer and Aisling Tuite
12. Statistics: On the statistical composition of unemployment – Ray Griffin and John O’Brien
Conclusion
Index
