What is it about?
How 'unemployment' as we knew it is being replaced by 'jobseeking' - a new category devised and policed by the social welfare.
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Why is it important?
Across the OECD activation policies are being introduced to tackle unemployment; but these are varied, have mixed results and can be corrosive for individuals, even pushing them into precarious work.
Perspectives
This article brings together my long-standing interests in Foucault and anthropology in an illuminating analysis of the endless limbo and statuslessness created by the changing welfare state.
Dr Tom J Boland
Waterford Institute of Technology
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This page is a summary of: The Death of Unemployment and the Birth of Job-Seeking in Welfare Policy: Governing a Liminal Experience, Irish Journal of Sociology, November 2015, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.7227/ijs.23.2.3.
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