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Unemployment and Protest: New Perspectives on Two Centuries of Contention

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The unemployed are usually depicted as passive and politically apathetic individuals who are traumatized by their experience and broken in body and spirit. The seminal study of Marienthal's unemployed in the 1930s, based on pioneering methodology and rich empirical findings, helped to entrench
this image as cross-disciplinary common sense.

This book challenges this dominant view by revealing the wide transnational repertoires of protest and resistance that the unemployed have deployed from the early nineteenth century to the present. They have contested their situation in a discontinuous but recurrent battle for recognition, for
rights to work or welfare, and for dignity. The case studies in this volume deal with contentious actions of the unemployed across different European countries, the United States, New Zealand, and Palestine.

They highlight the diverse responses of the workless to their fate beyond the apathy habitually ascribed to them, from passive resistance and individual protest to organized large-scale protest marches and from protest in newspapers, books, or internet forums to agitation and direct action in the
streets, benefit fraud, and legal challenges of administrative measures or government laws. Instead of following the traditional focus on Communist-led protest during the inter-war period, this volume accentuates the plurality of individuals and organizations that have tried to organize the
unemployed over the past two centuries.

Taken together, these essays suggest that the unemployed exercised agency over their lives and were more than willing to express themselves, defend their interests, and participate in collective action.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780199595730
  • Publisher: OUP/German Historical Institute London
  • Publisher Imprint: OUP/German Historical Institute London
  • Depth: 32
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 33 mm
  • Weight: 680 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0199595739
  • Publisher Date: 15 Apr 2011
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 448
  • Series Title: Studies of the German Historical Institute London
  • Sub Title: New Perspectives on Two Centuries of Contention
  • Width: 145 mm


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