Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The Discovery of Unemployment
- 2 Inventing Unemployment: The Birth of the Labour Exchange
- 3 Governing Unemployment as a ‘Risk’
- 4 Governing Through the Long-Term Unemployed: Unemployment Between the Wars
- 5 Unemployment and its Spaces
- 6 Governing Divided Societies: The New Deal
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The Discovery of Unemployment
- 2 Inventing Unemployment: The Birth of the Labour Exchange
- 3 Governing Unemployment as a ‘Risk’
- 4 Governing Through the Long-Term Unemployed: Unemployment Between the Wars
- 5 Unemployment and its Spaces
- 6 Governing Divided Societies: The New Deal
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
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- Unemployment and GovernmentGenealogies of the Social, pp. i - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000