IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ozl/journl/v6y2003i2p293-315.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The Psychology, Ethics and Social Relations of Unemployment

Author

Listed:
  • Greg Marston

    (RMIT University)

  • Catherine McDonald

    (The University of Queensland)

Abstract

This paper seeks to represent and interpret the everyday operations of Job Network organisations operationalising public policy, the processes of which remain relatively hidden from public view. Focusing on the primary relationship in the policy regime informing employment services: the case manager – client relationship, we demonstrate how at this micro-level the experience of unemployment is defined, enacted, accepted and resisted. To do so, we report in interviews undertaken with case managers and Intensive Assistance clients in a small sample of Job network agencies in Melbourne and Brisbane. In the broad sense, the research we report here provides an analytical example of how, in the everyday practices of people, certain ideas about social problems and particular policy responses become fixed in the popular imagination.

Suggested Citation

  • Greg Marston & Catherine McDonald, 2003. "The Psychology, Ethics and Social Relations of Unemployment," Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE), Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre (BCEC), Curtin Business School, vol. 6(2), pages 293-315, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:ozl:journl:v:6:y:2003:i:2:p:293-315
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://ftprepec.drivehq.com/ozl/journl/downloads/AJLE062marston.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Mobility; Unemployment; and Vacancies: Public Policy (includes Employment Services);
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • J68 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Public Policy

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ozl:journl:v:6:y:2003:i:2:p:293-315. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sandie Rawnsley (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/becurau.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.