This work aims to make people think about unemployment in a new way - by looking at its impact on politics. No one has yet looked at the hardest hit regions - the North East, Scotland and South Wales - to see what is going on beneath the apparent calm. As part of the research for the book, Ben Pimlott lived and interviewed in West Hartlepool where the unemployment rate is 1 in 3. All politics is based on social and economic conditions. In five years time, the effects of unemployment will have begun to bite at every level. There are chapters on the politics of unemployment both locally and nationally, the effects on political parties, on political writing, on journalism and television, on the civil service and the public sector, on trade unions and industrial relations. There is a careful examination of political response from minorities, the far left and the unemployed themselves.
- ISBN10 0140096434
- ISBN13 9780140096439
- Publish Date 3 December 2015
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 21 March 2007
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Language English