NOEL WHITESIDE - Bad Times. Unemployment in British Social and Political History

London England, Faber & Faber, 1991. 1st Paperback Edition, Binding: Soft Cover, Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0571151574 Paperback Paperback. Slight foxing to edge. Scratch to front cover. Unemployment in Britain is not a new problem. Yet analysts tend to ignore historical precedent and use economic factors as the sole explanation for recent crises. The author challenges this approach. She establishes how the nature of unemployment has changed over time, while demonstrating continuities between past and present debates about the issue. She concludes that the construction of 'unemployment' has been shaped by social and political forces, as much as by economic ones. This book uses an original historical framework to put an old issue into a new perspective. 147 pp.