Men Out of Work: a Study of Unemployment in Three English Towns

Hill, M. J.; Sargeant, A. V.; Talbot, V.

ISBN 10: 0521098181 / ISBN 13: 9780521098182

Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1973

About this Item

Paperback with exterior wear, bumped/creased spine, small rip at head of spine, label inside front cover. A few pages have very minor pen marginalia. Contents otherwise clean and sound. TPW.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Men Out of Work: a Study of Unemployment in Three English Towns
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Publication Date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521098181
• ISBN 13: 9780521098182
• Binding: paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Book Type: Used
• Seller catalogs:
  • Politics

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Synopsis

This 1973 book reports the first findings of a study of over a thousand unemployed men living in Coventry, Hammersmith and Newcastle upon Tyne in October 1971. It provides evidence on the main characteristics of these men, and particularly upon the relations between these characteristics and length of unemployment. In doing this the book looks at the evidence for those views of unemployment which attribute worklessness either to the inadequacies of individuals or to their reluctance to work. It finds that the most significant characteristics of the long-term unemployed are increasing age, low skill and deficient health, and concludes by relating these to the policies of the 1970s designed to assist men to get work.

Book Description

This 1973 book reports the first findings of a study of over a thousand unemployed men living in Coventry, Hammersmith and Newcastle upon Tyne in October 1971. It finds that the most significant characteristics of the long-term unemployed are increasing age, low skill and deficient health.