Abstract
As the monthly unemployment figures continue their downward trend, the headlines tell us that there are fewer people ‘out of work’. Leaving aside the question of how far the unemployment statistics have been manipulated to produce this impression, the idea of being ‘in work’ or ‘out of work’ is worth a closer look.
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Further Reading
Deem, R. (1988) Work, Unemployment and Leisure (Routledge).
Gershuny, J. and Pahl, R. (1980), ‘Britain in the Decade of the Three Economies’, New Society, 3 January, 1980.
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© 1991 David Barrat, Chris Brown, Tony Cole, Peter de la Cour, David Cutler and Karim Murji, Roger Gomm, Patrick McNeill
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McNeill, P. (1991). In and Out of Work. In: Society Today 2. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12065-9_15
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