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Narrating Unemployment (Paperback)
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Narrating Unemployment (Paperback)
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Drawing on the emerging field of narrative theory in sociology and
psychology, this book argues that an individual's response to job
loss is a product of the shape of the story a person tells about
their experience. This, in turn, is a product of both individual
creativity and the structuring effects of their social location.
Based on a qualitative study of the experience of unemployment in
Australia, three main types of job loss narratives are identified.
First, romantic narratives describe job loss as a positive
experience of liberation from an oppressive job, leading to a
gradually improving future. Second, tragic narratives describe job
loss as undermining a person's life plan, leading to a phase of
depression, anxiety and self-deprecation. Finally, job loss
narratives may be complicated by marital breakdown or serious
illness. The book breaks new ground in its use of narrative theory
to account for the variations in responses to unemployment.
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