Rural. Beyond deprivation theory: examining rural experience
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2015
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Cooke, G.B.
Hutchings, D.
Donaghey, J.
Zeytinoglu, I.U.
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Boland, T.
Griffin, R.
Griffin, R.
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Source details - Title: The Sociology of Unemployment, 2015 / Boland, T., Griffin, R. (ed./s), Ch.5, pp.90-106
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This chapter reports on fieldwork on the experience of rural unemployment. Across a broad range of experiences three interesting findings emerged- that it is possible to have a well-made life whilst unemployed in a rural environment, that those subject to rural unemployment feel that they have choices and thus agency over their circumstances, but these are both dependent on the passive to mildly active labour market measures operating during this time, which offer further agency to individuals. These findings are in marked contrast one of the main ways the experience of unemployment is understood- where it is positioned as a deprivation; producing apathy, demoralisation and depression in those subjected to it. Thus the second half of this chapter examines the fieldwork against the backdrop of the seminal Marienthal studies, which is the starting point for much of contemporary thinking about unemployment; and stands in marked contrast to the empirical material considered.
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Copyright 2015 Manchester University Press