Unemployment and attitudes to work: asking the ‘right’ question

Dunn, Andrew; Grasso, Maria T.; Saunders, Caroline

doi:10.1177/0950017014529008

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“…The approach highlights the main focus of UK employment policy, which can be summarised in Bonvin and Farvaque's (2005: 277) Similarly, the importance attached to choice is founded on economic goals (Lewis and Giullari, 2005). The underlying, neo-liberal assumption is that unemployed individuals should, but do not, prefer any job to unemployment (Dunn et al, 2014). The level of required compliance that this approach entails was visible in court cases against the DWP (e.g.…”

Section: A Changing Policy Framework For Choicementioning

confidence: 99%

“…On the one hand, and as the above quote indicates, without protective resistance it may be easier to 'get things done' and engage with the support and learning opportunities on offer. On the other hand, such change on the part of service users is equivalent to complying with attempts to change attitudes and behaviour by JC+ and the Work Programme (Dunn et al, 2014, DWP, 2014b.…”

Section: Overcoming Resistance and Approaching Choicementioning

confidence: 99%

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Capabilities and Choices of Vulnerable, Long-Term Unemployed Individuals

Beck

2017

Work, Employment and Society

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This paper discusses the issue of choice as it applies to long-term unemployed and vulnerable individuals. It argues that the combination of poor employment opportunities, requirements, compulsions and sanctions has not merely reduced available choice for individuals with multiple barriers to re-/join the labour market but has also resulted in curtailed decision-making abilities when it comes to their pathways into employment. The outcomes can include protective resistance as a response to the extent of regulation, which may undermine engagement in job search and related activities. Despite attempts by benevolent staff in a charity to provide support and enhance capabilities that result in the overcoming of protective resistance, they operate within a broader institutional framework of choice as set by government policy. The end result is compulsion, not choice.

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Section: A Changing Policy Framework For Choicementioning

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Section: Overcoming Resistance and Approaching Choicementioning

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Capabilities and Choices of Vulnerable, Long-Term Unemployed Individuals

Beck

2017

Work, Employment and Society

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“…This finding is backed up by new research which found that, on average, the workmotivation of unemployed people is significantly weaker than that of employed individuals (Dunn, Grasso & Saunders, 2014) Finally, Dunn and colleagues showed that when other variables were controlled for, unemployed people were still significantly more likely than employed people to prefer unemployment.…”

Section: Personality Of Welfare Claimantsmentioning

confidence: 74%

The welfare trait: Hans Eysenck, personality and social issues

Perkins

2016

Personality and Individual Differences

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Inspired by Hans Eysenck's belief that personality research can provide insights on societal problems, this article summarises a theory -the Welfare Trait -which attempts to explain the tendency of the welfare state to erode work motivation. This theory stems from the discovery that exposure to disadvantage during childhood promotes the development of employmentresistant personality characteristics. If true, this discovery matters because it means a welfare state which sets up perverse incentives that cause extra children to be born into disadvantaged households may harm the prospects of the nation by shifting its personality profile towards greater employment-resistance. Although still in need of more refined data, the Welfare Trait theory conforms to Hans Eysenck's belief that psychology in general, and personality psychology in particular, is germane to addressing important issues of widespread social impact.However, as in Eysenck's time, discussion of such 'controversial' issues leads to severe criticism and personal vilification, facilitated today by the ease of communication via social media (e.g., Twitter).

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“…However, it should be noted that the causal mechanism could also be operating in the other direction, with protest having "biographical effects" on activists leading to nontraditional choices and irregular work histories (McAdam, 1999;Giugni & Grasso, 2016). Research has shown that some unemployed people are more resource-rich, preferring unemployment in the face of poor job alternatives (Dunn, Grasso, & Saunders, 2014). This in turn might attenuate the wider negative effects of losing a job and having a restricted network as a result of being out work (Jahoda, Lazarsfeld, & Zeisel, 1933).…”

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Do Issues Matter? Anti-Austerity Protests’ Composition, Values, and Action Repertoires Compared

Grasso¹,

Giugni²

2016

Protest, Social Movements and Global Democracy Since 2011: New Perspectives

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. . Grasso and Marco GiugniABSTRACT An important wave of anti-austerity protests has swept across Western Europe in recent years. We can thus distinguish between three different types of protest occurring in Western Europe recently: "old" issue protests, relating to the trade union and labor movement; "new" issue protests, relating to culture and identity issues; anti-austerity protests, emerging directly in reaction to austerity measures and cuts enacted in the current period. Following previous literature, we hypothesize that anti-austerity protests have attracted a new constituency to the streets and that they will be different from both "old" and "new" protests in terms of their social composition, value orientations, and action repertoires. We expect anti-austerity protesters to be on the whole younger, and in more precarious working conditions, to be more concerned with economic over social issues, but also to be considerably less institutionalized and embedded in organizational networks, and to have fewer experiences of previous extra-institutional participation. We test these hypotheses by analyzing a unique and novel dataset containing data from over 10,000 protestors from 72 demonstrations (2009À2013). Our results lend broad support to our hypotheses with the exception of the idea that "precarity" forms a new social base for anti-austerity protests.

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Unemployment and attitudes to work: asking the ‘right’ question

Cited by 42 publications

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Capabilities and Choices of Vulnerable, Long-Term Unemployed Individuals

Capabilities and Choices of Vulnerable, Long-Term Unemployed Individuals

The welfare trait: Hans Eysenck, personality and social issues

Do Issues Matter? Anti-Austerity Protests’ Composition, Values, and Action Repertoires Compared

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