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Hardest times : the trauma of long-term unemployment / Thomas J. Cottle.
- Title
- Hardest times : the trauma of long-term unemployment / Thomas J. Cottle.
- Author
- Cottle, Thomas J.
- Publication
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2003.
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- Description
- xiv, 311 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- This is a sobering look at what happens to men -- and their families -- who are unemployed for six months or longer. An insightful and sensitive account of the social and psychological consequences of unemployment, the book presents portraits of these men coupled with provocative theoretical analysis. It should be of interest to those studying the sociology and psychology of work, male identity, bereavement and trauma. -- From product description.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- interviews.
- Case studies
- Interviews
- Études de cas.
- Interviews.
- Note
- Originally published: Praeger Publishers, 2001.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-305) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Mr. housewife U.S.A. : Kenneth Hawkins -- You work nine to five or you're dead : George Wilkinson -- They want me to be invisible : Peter Rosenbloom -- A one-in-a-million chance to earn a living : Ollie Sindon -- Never dreamed it would get this bad : Cyrus Mullen -- Only one thing in life that matters and that's working steady : Cleveland Wilkes ; Jeremiah Kelser ; and Eddie Harrington, Jr. -- Shame like nobody could know : William Leominster ; Aaron Donane ; and Jack Blum -- After unraveling, a better outcome : Gabriel Forman -- The shame of unemployment -- The trauma of unemployment.
- ISBN
- 1558494154 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2003020648
- OCLC
- 53131264
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library