Multi-method research study shows why leisure activities are as important for the unemployed as they are for the employed. Can someone who is unemployed experience leisure, or does that seem like a contradiction in terms? If unemployed people can experience leisure, how might it mitigate the...

Flexible forms of employment have been presented in the book as one of key instruments in fighting unemployment. Although negative voices are raised about objective treatment of an employee, the lack of social security, uncertainty of employment, etc. many of these opinions are just myths and...

Intro -- Workers and Narratives of Survival in Europe -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction ANGELA PROCOLI -- PART I: Identity and the Experience of Work -- 1. The Hazards of Overemployment: What Do Chief Executives and Housewives Have in Common? SANDRA WALLMAN -- 2. Secret Enterprise:...

In All I Want Is a Job!, Mary Gatta puts a human face on workforce development policy. An ethnographic sociologist, Gatta went undercover, posing as a client in a New Jersey One-Stop Career Center. One-Stop Centers, developed as part of the federal Workforce Investment Act, are supposed to be an...