Narrating unemployment [electronic resource] / Douglas Ezzy.

"Drawing on the emerging field of narrative theory in sociology and psychology, this book argues that an individual's response to job loss is a product of the shape of the story a person tells about their experience. This, in turn, is a product of both individual creativity and the structu...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Ezzy, Douglas
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2017.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction
  • 2 Unemployment and Mental Health: A Critical Review
  • 3 A Narrative Theory of Unemployment
  • 4 Job Loss as a Romance
  • 5 Job Loss as a Tragedy
  • 6 Tragic Unemployment
  • 7 Complex Job Loss
  • 8 Unemployment and the Meaning of Working
  • 9 Conclusion.