Tables and Figure; Foreword; Part One: Introduction; Ch. 1: Cultures of the Welfare State; Ch. 2: The Central Issues of the Study; Part Two: Empirical Study; Ch. 3: A Jobless Market; Ch. 4: Making Ends Meet; Ch. 5: Dealing with Time; Ch. 6: Looking for a Job; Ch. 7: The Perceptions of Rights and Obligations; Part Three: Analysis and Comparisons; Ch. 8: Cultures of Unemployment; Ch. 9: Homo Calculans and Homo Honoris; Ch. 10: A Profile of Urban Poverty; Appendixes; Acknowledgements; Bibliography; About the book and the authors; Index.
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... An extraordinarily rich and detailed study of the social and economic life of unemployed and poor households. Michael Sherraden in Social Work.
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