Idle Hands
The Experience of Unemployment, 1790-1990
1st Edition
Published on 11. July 2017
Book
Hardback
380 pages
978-1-138-43243-7 (ISBN)
Description
Idle Hands is the first major social history of unemployment in Britain covering the last 200 years. It focuses on the experiences of working people in becoming unemployed, coping with unemployment and searching for work, and their reactions and responses to their problems. Direct evidence of the impact of unemployment drawn from extensive personal biographies complements economic and statistical analysis.
Reviews / Votes
`... he has produced a vivid, moving and highly readable account of victimisation and suffering, reslilence and generosity, hope and despair.' - News Statesman & Society`John Burnett will always be known as the pioneer of the history of working people in their own words. He has opened up an Aladdins's cave of historical treasures and transformed working class history from a dry account of wages, prices and institutions into a real human world of warm-blooded people... a splendid book ... ' - Social History Society Newsletter
`He has produced a vivid, moving and highly readable account of victimisation and suffering, resilience and generosity, hope and despair.' - New Statesman and Society
`The strength of this book lies in the sense it gives of the economic and social continuities that mark the history of unemployment.' - David Selbourne The Times Higher
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
453 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-43243-7 (9781138432437)
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Persons
Professor John Burnett
Content
Introduction; 1: Unemployment in the Countryside, 1790-1834; 2: A Dying Trade: The Case of the Handloom Weavers, 1790-1850; 3: Unemployment Among Skilled Workers, 1815-70; 4: Unemployment on the Land, 1834-1914; 5: The Discovery' of Unemployment, 1870-1914; 6: 'The Worst of Times?' Unemployment Between the Wars; 1: Back to Unemployment, 1970-90; 8: Conclusion