Unemployment and Government: Genealogies of the Social (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521643337)

This book follows the invention and transformation of unemployment, understood as a historically specific site of regulation. Taking key aspects of the history of unemployment in Britain as its focus, it argues that the ways in which authorities have defined and sought to manage the jobless have been remarkably varied. The book examines such institutionalized practices as the labor bureau, unemployment insurance, and the present "New Deal" as "technologies" of power. The result is a challenge to our thinking about welfare states.

Author: William Walters
ISBN-10: 0521643333
ISBN-13: 9780521643337
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/26/2000
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.20w x 0.90d