Unemployment (Routledge Library Editions: Work & Society)

Crick, Bernard (EDT)

Routledge（2024/09発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 152 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781032818559
• DDC分類 331.13794109048

Full Description

This book was originally published in 1981 at a time when mass unemployment had returned to the United Kingdom. Now reissued with a new Preface by the author's literary executor, the essays in this volume discuss in detail the damage that was being done to the community and the economy at national and regional levels as a result of government policy. There are chapters on the political and economic aspects of the problem, on the comparison with the inter-war years, on youth unemployment and on unemployment in each of the regions worst affected. The collection as a whole provides an authoritative overview of a central political issue of the late 20th Century but one which still has resonance today as the post-Covid, post-Brexit UK economy teeters on the edge of recession.

Contents

1.Commentary Bernard Crick 2. Unemployment Now and in the 1930s Jeremy Seabrook 3. View From a Disaster Area: Unemployed Youth in Merseyside F. F. Ridley 4. Economic Aspects of Unemployment Maurice Peston 5. Political Aspects of Unemployment: The Alternative Policy Austin Mitchell 6 The North East: Back to the 1930s? Ben Pimlott 7. De-Industrialisation and Unemployment in the West Midlands Stan Taylor 8. South Yorkshire: The Economic and Social Impact of Unemployment Alan Walker 9. Unemployment and Wages in Northern Ireland N. J. Gibson and J. E. Spencer 10. Wage Bargaining and Unemployment Sean Glynn and Stephen Shaw 11. Wales: Will Unemployment Bred Unrest or Apathy? John Osmond 12. Unemployment: The Past and Future of a Political Problem Keith Middlemas