Cultures of Unemployment: A Comparative Look at Long-Term Unemployment and Urban Poverty (Amsterdam University Press - Amsterdam Archaeological Studies)

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 Behavior Of The Unemployed In Connection With The Generative 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. A Foreword By U.s. Scholar William Julius Wilson Emphasizes The Universality Of The Method And Findings Presented Here.--book Jacket. Foreword / William Julius Wilson -- 1. Cultures Of The Welfare State -- 2. The Central Issues Of The Study -- 3. A Jobless Market -- 4. Making Ends Meet -- 5. Dealing With Time -- 6. Looking For A Job -- 7. The Perception Of Rights And Obligations -- 8. Cultures Of Unemployment -- 9. Homo Calculans And Homo Honoris -- 10. A Profile Of Urban Poverty -- Appendix I: Unemployment And The Labor Market -- Appendix Ii: Fieldwork And Data Processing -- Appendix Ii: Description Of The Three Research Locations -- Appendix Iv: Dutch And American Incomes Compared -- Appendix V: Tables From Chapter 8. Godfried Engbersen ... [et Al.] With A Foreword By William Julius Wilson. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [253]-266) And Index.

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 Behavior Of The Unemployed In Connection With The Generative 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. A Foreword By U.s. Scholar William Julius Wilson Emphasizes The Universality Of The Method And Findings Presented Here.

Annotation. In the 1980s a team of Dutch sociologists conducted a study on the daily life of unemployed in the Netherlands. They were inspired by the classical work Marienthal: the Sociology of an Unemployed Community first published in 1933. The authors conducted three neighborhood studies to analyze the social behavior of the unemployed. Based on the work of Robert K. Merton and Mary Douglas they developed a typology of different cultures of unemployment. This typology is still relevant to analyze contemporary reactions to unemployment in European welfare states. The authors also demonstrated that their cultural analysis is fruitful to understand the heterogeneity of urban marginality in the United States. A foreword by U.S. scholar William Julius Wilson emphasizes the universality of the method and the findings presented here. Using extensive case studies and survey data, this study addresses questions related to the "cultures" of unemployment. The authors use their research results to devise a framework for the cultural analysis of unemployment and the welfare state both in the US and abroad. '...an extraordinarily rich and detailed study of the social and economic life of unemployed and poor households.'Michael Sherraden in Social Work -�an extraordinarily rich and detailed study of the social and economic life of unemployed and poor households.� Michael Sherraden in Social Work