Unemployment

Peter Kelvin and Joanna Jarrett examine the effects of unemployment identified by research conducted since the 1930s.

Peter Kelvin (Author), Joanna E. Jarrett (Author)

9780521315180, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 10 October 1985

156 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 0.9 cm, 0.23 kg

In this 1985 book, Peter Kelvin and Joanna Jarrett examine the effects of unemployment identified by research conducted since the 1930s and consider the implications of these effects on both personal relationships and the public treatment of the unemployed. The book brings together a wide variety of material - mainly psychological, but also economic, sociological and, in particular, historical. This diverse material is integrated in terms of a small number of fundamental psychological concepts and five basic and related questions: how does unemployment affect the way in which the unemployed individual sees himself; how does it affect the way he sees others; how does he think others see him; how do others actually see him; and how does any of this affect how the individual behaves and how she/he is treated?

1. Introduction
2. Stages of unemployment
3. Looking for work
4. The self-concept
5. The unemployed individual as seen by himself
6. The unemployed individual as seen by others
7. Others
Bibliography and citation index
Subject index.

Subject Areas: Social, group or collective psychology [JMH]