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