Idle Hands

The Experience of Unemployment, 1790-1990

By: Proffessor John Burnett, John Burnett

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Paperback | 30 June 1994 | Edition Number 1

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Idle Hands is the first major social history of unemployment in Britain covering the last 200 years. It focuses on the experiences of working people in becoming unemployed, coping with unemployment and searching for work, and their reactions and responses to their problems. Direct evidence of the impact of unemployment drawn from extensive personal biographies complements economic and statistical analysis.

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Burnett uses vivid quotations from his extensive knowledge of working-class autobiographies to bring to life what could have been a dryish subject, prone as it is to attract official statistics and pious moralizing. He reveals the impact of being out of work on ordinary lives, 'not what happened but how people felt about it when it was happening'. Our postwar years of full employment were, it seems, exceptional and historically untypical; never before have so many young people been unemployed for so long. Unless work is shared more, Burnett concludes, the devil will find mischief for idle hands. (Kirkus UK)

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