
Unemployment and Government
Genealogies of the Social
Part of Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
- Author: William Walters, Carleton University, Ottawa
- Date Published: November 2000
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521643337
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While joblessness is by no means a phenomenon specific to this century, the concept of 'unemployment' is. This book follows the invention and transformation of unemployment, understood as a historically specific site of regulation. Taking key aspects of the history of unemployment in Britain as its focus, it argues that the ways in which authorities have defined and sought to manage the jobless have been remarkably varied. In tracing some of the different constructions of unemployment over the last 100 years - as a problem of 'character', as a social 'risk', or today, as a problem of 'skills' - the study highlights the discursive dimension of social and economic policy problems. The book examines such institutionalized practices as the labour bureau, unemployment insurance, and the 'New Deal' as 'technologies' of power. The result is a challenge to our thinking about welfare states.
Read more- Critical discussion of UK's Labour government's New Deal for the unemployed
- Offers a 'deconstruction' of the concept of unemployment
- Exemplifies the application of Foucault's methods to the study of social policy
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- Date Published: November 2000
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521643337
- length: 208 pages
- dimensions: 236 x 163 x 21 mm
- weight: 0.551kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. The discovery of unemployment
2. Inventing unemployment: the birth of the labour exchange
3. Governing unemployment as a 'risk'
4. Governing through the long-term unemployed: unemployment between the wars
5. Unemployment and its spaces
6. Governing divided societies: the new deal.
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