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Being Unemployed in Northern Ireland - An Ethnographic Study (Paperback)
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Age-old ideas about the deserving and undeserving poor are still
pervasive in our society. Stereotypes of the scrounger and the
malingerer, and the widespread belief that much joblessness is
voluntary, continue to constitute the ideological basis of
conservative social policy on unemployment and poverty. In this
study of unemployment in Belfast, Dr Howe successfully refutes some
of the widely held myths about the black economy, the welfare
benefit system and the so-called culture of dependency. This is a
major ethnography of unemployment and the first community-based
book on contemporary unemployment in the United Kingdom. It is an
account of the social, psychological and material circumstances of
working-class, long-term unemployed married men in both Catholic
and Protestant communities in Belfast. Dr Howe shows how the
experience of unemployment is shaped both by local factors and by
factors that are more generally characteristic of industrial
societies. These include the bureaucratic administration of welfare
benefits, the exploitation of opportunities in the black economy
and the conflict between those with and those without jobs.
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