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Hardcover Inventing Unemployment: Regulating Joblessness in Twentieth-Century Australia Book

ISBN: 1509928197

ISBN13: 9781509928194

Inventing Unemployment: Regulating Joblessness in Twentieth-Century Australia

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This book examines the evolution of Australian unemployment law and policy across the past 100 years. It poses the question 'How does unemployment happen?'. But it poses it in a particular way. How do we regulate work relationships, gather statistics, and administer a social welfare system so as to produce something we call 'unemployment'? And how has that changed over time?

Attempts to sort workers into discrete categories - the 'employed',...

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