Employment and unemployment : a social-psychological analysis
The book is an accessible and non-technical account of the contribution which social psychology can make to understanding unemployment and clearly reveals the limitations of an exclusive concentration on its economic aspects. Professor Jahoda shows that the psychological impact is hugely destructive, throwing doubt on the popular diagnosis that the work ethic is disappearing.
VIII, 111 p. ; 23 cm
9780521242943, 9780521285865, 0521242940, 0521285860
1023909850
Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Definitions and their implications; 3. Social and psychological consequences of unemployment in the nineteen-thirties; 4. Employment and unemployment in the nineteen-eighties; 5. Can employment be humanised?; 6. Looking back and looking ahead; References; Indexes.