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Idle Hands - The Experience of Unemployment, 1790-1990 (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,567

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Idle Hands - The Experience of Unemployment, 1790-1990 (Paperback): John Burnett, Proffessor John Burnett

Idle Hands - The Experience of Unemployment, 1790-1990 (Paperback)

John Burnett, Proffessor John Burnett

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Burnett uses vivid quotations from his extensive knowledge of working-class autobiographies to bring to life what could have been a dryish subject, prone as it is to attract official statistics and pious moralizing. He reveals the impact of being out of work on ordinary lives, 'not what happened but how people felt about it when it was happening'. Our postwar years of full employment were, it seems, exceptional and historically untypical; never before have so many young people been unemployed for so long. Unless work is shared more, Burnett concludes, the devil will find mischief for idle hands. (Kirkus UK)

"Idle Hands" offers a major social history of unemployment in Britain over the last 200 years. It focuses on the experiences of working people in becoming unemployed, coping with unemployment and searching for work, and their reactions and responses to their problems. Direct evidence of the impact of unemployment is drawn from extensive personal biographies.

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Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 1994
First published:	1994
Authors:	John Burnett • Proffessor John Burnett
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	380
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-05501-7
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Poverty Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Unemployment Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Labour economics > Employment & unemployment Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	0-415-05501-6
Barcode:	9780415055017