scholarly journals Identity work and the `unemployed' worker: age, disability and the lived experience of the older unemployed

2009 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Riach ◽  
Wendy Loretto
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
Unemployed Worker ◽  
The Unemployed

scholarly journals The politics of narrating Cinderella in Namibia

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-83
Author(s):  
Hein Willemse
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Southern Region ◽  
The Self ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Dialogical Relationship ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
Agricultural Supply

This article reports on variations of the Cinderella fairytale as told by two southern Namibian storytellers, Martha Frederik and Katrina Louw. The analysis concentrates on the self-imagery of these storytellers as reflected in their performances. Although their stories are not overtly political they interpret their social environment, the relationships between men and women and employment interactions. In this sense these narratives communicate deeper dimensions of Namibian colonial relationships. Life in the towns of Aranos and Gochas is uninspiring, since these are small agricultural supply stations, settled in the mostly arid, sparse, semi-desert southern region of Namibia, Hardap. These communities are generally dirt poor, inhabited mainly by the unemployed, children, women and pensioners. The article further explores facets of the Frederik and Louw's re-interpretations of Cinderella. A few salient sections in especially the performance of Frederik are selected to demonstrate how the storytellers reconstruct their experience of life. Both texts are adapted intuitively to the storytellers' social circumstances and lived experience. The article concludes that it is through the exploration of such narrative experiences that the dialogical relationship between the powerful and the powerless can be understood.

The Unemployed Worker: A Study of the Task of Making a Living without a Job.

1941 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 593
Author(s):  
Mirra Komarovsky ◽  
E. Wight Bakke
Keyword(s):  
Unemployed Worker ◽  
The Unemployed

Compulsion in active labour market programmes

2007 ◽  
Vol 202 ◽  
pp. 67-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan C. van Ours
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Treatment Effect ◽  
Unemployed Worker ◽  
Potential Employer ◽  
Active Labour ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
Active Labour Market Programmes

This paper examines compulsion in active labour market programmes (ALMP). When an unemployed worker has to participate in a programme in order to remain eligible for benefits there are two seperate effects. First, there is the treatment effect, i.e. the programme makes the worker more attractive for a potential employer or makes search more efficient, thus helping the unemployed worker to find a job more quickly. Second, there is the compulsion effect, i.e. because the worker has to attend the programme his value of being unemployed drops and he is stimulated to find a job more quickly. So, both effects induce the worker to find a job more quickly. The difference between the treatment effect and the compulsion effect concerns the quality of the post-unemployment job. The treatment effect improves the quality; the compulsion effect lowers the quality of post-unemployment jobs.

scholarly journals The unemployed mid-career adult: stressors and support

2006 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynn Ribton-Turner ◽  
Gideon P De Bruin
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Large Degree ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Additional Insight ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
Insight Into

The high rate of unemployment in South Africa is of national concern yet the experience of being unemployed is little understood; not enough is known about the unemployed condition in South Africa. In this study eight unemployed mid-career adults who had been out of work for longer than six months were interviewed in order to explore their lived experience. A qualitative methodology was used and from the extensive interview data, using qualitative content analysis, themes relating to the unemployed condition emerged. Results support, to a large degree, the existing literature and studies on the stressors impacting on the unemployed. This study offers additional insight into the support structures available for the unemployed adult.

Job Loss, Unemployment, and Families

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frances McKee-Ryan ◽  
Robyn Maitoza
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Relationship Quality ◽  
Job Loss ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Unemployed Worker ◽  
Ripple Effects ◽  
The Social ◽  
Protective Resources ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
Coping With Job Loss

The detrimental effects of job loss and unemployment are not limited to the unemployed worker but ripple out to affect those closest to him or her. These ripple effects most notably impact the unemployed worker’s family, including a spouse or partner and/or children. In this chapter, we summarize previous research related to the impacts on marital or partner relationships and families and the particular effects of unemployment on children. For couples and families, we explore the financial or economic stressors and strain brought about by job loss; the direct, crossover, and relationship quality effects of stress and reduced mental health among unemployed workers and their spouses; protective resources for coping with job loss, such as social support and family resilience; and the social roles and identity of the unemployed worker. For children, we focus on mental health, child development, and educational/human capital attainment. We then offer suggestions for future research on families facing unemployment.

scholarly journals Co-sexuality : the lived experience of organizing around sexuality

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Cristin A. Compton
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Human Sexuality ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
Master Narrative ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Sex And Sexuality ◽  
Core Part ◽  
Over Time

Sex and sexuality are a core part of the human experience. What has been socially constructed as "normal" sexuality (e.g., acts, behaviors, preferences, conversation topics, vocabulary, etc.) has changed dramatically over time. Because sex and sexuality are fundamentally acts of power (Foucault, 1978/1990), human sexuality is a highly regulated construct that people organize around. This is particularly true in the context of the workplace, where policies and daily practices both explicitly and implicitly regulate performances of and communication about sexuality. This dissertation explores the process of co-sexuality: how "normal" sexuality is communicatively constructed in the modern Midwestern workplace as well as how people organize around the constructed norm. Participants identifying with a variety of sexualities, genders, and professions drew on the master narrative of the Midwest, the expectation of aggressive sexuality, and acts of silence/ing to describe the process of co-sexuality. Participants also described feeling simultaneously pulled toward and pushed away from the "normal" sexual center and the complex identity work needed to remain effective in the workplace. Implications for theory, sexuality scholarship, and political implications are also discussed.

scholarly journals Social representations of Covid-19 and stigmatization of healthcare personnel and people attained by abidjanese populations, Cote d’Ivoire

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 352-363
Author(s):  
Kouame Kouakou Félicien ◽  
Digbeu Alain Fabrice ◽  
Samouth Aka Fabrice
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
The Other ◽  
Central Core ◽  
Healthcare Personnel ◽  
The Social ◽  
Main Components ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Negative Feelings ◽  
The Unemployed

The present study aims to identify the structure of coronavirus social representations in order to understand the stigmatization of people with Covid-19 and of healthcare personnel by populations in Abidjan. To do this, we have drawn up a sample made up of the unemployed, pupils and students and workers. There are 325 participants, including 177 men and 148 women, with an age that varies between 16 and 59 years. These people are subjected to the evocation questionnaire according to the structural approach of social representations (Abric, 1994). Analysis of the data using evoc2005 and simi2005 shows that the evocations "containment", "death" and "invention" constitute the main components (central core) of the social representations of coronavirus. These elements, which reflect a lived experience of negative feelings, will generate the construction of negative prejudices and common beliefs that encourage avoidance behaviours among participants to flee the feared situation. It takes place inward withdrawal and rejection of the other which constitutes for the individual a danger. Hence the stigmatization of people who visibly "embody" danger, death (the object of fear), namely people with Covid-19 and caregivers. The results therefore suggest that in the fight against Covid-19 the psychological aspect is also important and must be taken into account.

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