Research Catalog

Title

Long-term unemployment / edited by Odile Benoit-Guilbot and Duncan Gallie.

Publication

London ; New York : Pinter Publishers ; New York : Distributed in the United States and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Benoît-Guilbot, Odile.
• Gallie, Duncan.

Description

182 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

Analyses the causes and consequences of long-term unemployment from the standpoint of the social and societal conditions in each country.

Series Statement

Social change in Western Europe

Uniform Title

Social change in Western Europe.

Subject

Hard-core unemployed > European Union countries

Genre/Form

• bibliography.
• graph.
• bibliographie.
• graphique.
• bibliografía.
• gráfico.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [174]-182) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Why are there so many long-term unemployed in the EU? / Odile Benoit-Guilbot -- 1. Unemployment and employment relations in Britain / Michael White -- 2. The long-term unemployed in France / Odile Benoit-Guilbot and Mireille Clemencon -- 3. Federal Republic of Germany: change and diversity / Helmut Rudolph -- 4. Italy: a long wait in the shelter of the family and of safeguards from the state / Emilio Reyneri -- 5. Spain: modernisation of unemployment / Luis Toharia -- 6. Social consequences of long-term unemployment in Britain / Duncan Gallie -- 7. Social problems and personal troubles: unemployment and psychological distress in Ireland / Christopher T. Whelan -- 8. The formation of a new underclass: transitions to and from unemployment in the Netherlands / Paul M. De Graaf and Wout C. Ultee -- Conclusion: towards a new underclass? / Duncan Gallie.

ISBN

• 1855672480 (hc.)
• 185567212X (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^94013741^

OCLC

• 31315729
• SCSB-11060332

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library