10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WORKLESSNESS»
Discover the use of
worklessness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
worklessness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Work,
Worklessness, and the Political Economy of Health
Chronic illness is itself a significant cause of worklessness and low pay. Drawing on examples from different countries, this book shows that the relationship between work, worklessness and health varies by country.
2
Writing Unemployment:
Worklessness, Mobility, and ...
Writing Unemployment asks how writers with diverse political affiliations participated in and protested against the discursive framing of unemployment.
3
Social Europe: Living Standards and Welfare States
First, there is evidence to suggest that worklessness has been growing at the
household level over recent decades (Gregg and Wadsworth, 1996, 2001, 2002).
Second, among couples, the risk of poverty and its accompanying social
problems ...
Richard Berthoud, Maria Iakōvou,
2004
4
Renewing Neighbourhoods: Work, Enterprise and Governance
Introduction A defining characteristic of deprived neighbourhoods is the relatively
high levels of unemployment and worklessness experienced by their resident
populations. This has fundamental implications as involuntary exclusion from the
...
Stephen Syrett, David J. North,
2008
5
Building bridges to work: new approaches to tackling ...
Reforms cover: the abolition of incapacity benefits and the roll out of the new Work Capability Assessment to long term claimants to look at what they can do; more personalised help for those unable to work; more support for job seekers ...
Great Britain: Department for Work and Pensions,
2010
6
Very Little-- Almost Nothing: Death, Philosophy, Literature
... or opens into the experience of desoeuvrement, a worklessness which should
not be confused with formlessness. Blanchot summarizes his reading of the
Trilogy: Aesthetic sentiments are out of place here. Perhaps we are not in the ...
7
Blanchot, Extreme Contemporary
The worklessness of being But what might be the difference (if there is one)
between death by suicide and death by other means? The first of these, by
entrusting itself to dialectics (entirely founded on the possibility of death, the use
of death as ...
8
After Blanchot: Literature, Criticism, Philosophy
For Blanchot the irreducible singularity of worklessness operates on, works the
material properties of language towards the production of a work always already
contaminated by a worklessness that is its birth and its death at once - "the life ...
Leslie Hill, Brian Nelson, Dimitris Vardoulakis,
2005
9
Putting Workfare in Place: Local Labour Markets and the New Deal
While not all of the inactive have aspirations to work, doubtless many of them
would prefer and are able to do so, implying that the ILO definition of
unemployment still seriously understates the real extent of worklessness. One of
the most ...
Peter Sunley, Ron Martin, Corinne Nativel,
2011
10
Helping people from workless households into work: ninth ...
Nevertheless, many people still suffer the social and economic costs of
worklessness. In spring 2007, over 4.3 million people of working-age and 1.79
million children were living in workless households.2 A workless household is a
household ...
Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts, House of Commons
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WORKLESSNESS»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
worklessness is used in the context of the following news items.
Take home pay and worklessness: what do the figures say?
On yesterday's Sunday Politics show, the Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith faced a barrage of questions on the government's controversial ... «Full Fact, Mar 14»
New child poverty strategy revealed by Work and Pensions …
Mr Duncan Smith agreed to put plans on hold to rewrite the definition of poverty to include factors like educational opportunity, worklessness and parental ... «The Independent, Feb 14»
Employment: Young targeted in crackdown on 'jobless culture'
George Osborne said the moves, which would be piloted in some parts of the country from April, were designed to tackle a “culture of worklessness” among ... «The Independent, Dec 13»
IDS cites "personal observations" to defend junk statistic
Last December, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation chronicled those claims in a report looking at "cultures of worklessness", and found that they were extremely ... «New Statesman, Apr 13»
Hardcore of troubled families cost billions
Huge sums are also spent by the authorities on caring and fostering children from families whose lives are marked by crime, truancy and worklessness. «The Times, Mar 13»
"Four generations of families where no-one has ever had a job …
Despite dogged searching in localities with high rates of worklessness across ... "Three generations of worklessness" is, by the way, a claim made by Iain ... «New Statesman, Dec 12»
'Culture of worklessness' theory challenged
The theory of a “culture of worklessness” where anti-employment and pro-welfare attitudes are passed on by jobless parents to their children is challenged in a ... «Financial Times, Dec 12»
Freedom of Information shows no evidence for thousands of 'never …
They found that, while workless households were certainly a problem, worklessness across two generations accounted for only a small fraction of households, ... «Full Fact, Jul 12»
The great DWP conjuring act on worklessness figures
The Department for Work and Pensions is under pressure to improve levels of transparency and accountability following a FullFact.org investigation yesterday. «Left Foot Forward, May 12»
Massive scope to increase housing providers' impact on worklessness
HACT and Inclusion launch a new report outlining how housing providers can increase the impact of employment and skills programmes aimed at getting ... «24dash, May 12»