Workless: Some Unemployed Men and Their Families : an Exploration of the Social Contract Between Society and the WorkerMonograph on unemployment in the UK, based on interviews of the unemployed and their families - includes the effect of unemployment on Motivation and morale of the individual and society, the role of employment services, social security benefits, unemployment benefit, sheltered workshops, etc. |
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Page 170
... housework done in the mornings and then I'll have to go out somewhere . Somebody'll have to go out , because I think we'd get on each other's nerves . We'd get each other down . He'd be depressed at not having a job , and I'd be ...
... housework done in the mornings and then I'll have to go out somewhere . Somebody'll have to go out , because I think we'd get on each other's nerves . We'd get each other down . He'd be depressed at not having a job , and I'd be ...
Page 171
... housework . But he confessed nonetheless , ' I'm very bad at housework . It gets me depressed , so sometimes I'll leave it all and read a book until four o'clock . Then I'll start . ' Of all those we met , Mr Odell was the one who most ...
... housework . But he confessed nonetheless , ' I'm very bad at housework . It gets me depressed , so sometimes I'll leave it all and read a book until four o'clock . Then I'll start . ' Of all those we met , Mr Odell was the one who most ...
Page 244
... housework , even embracing their household chores and manufactur- ing extra ones to replace those done by the husband . As a result there was little for the man to do at home . The husbands in closer marriages tended to protect their ...
... housework , even embracing their household chores and manufactur- ing extra ones to replace those done by the husband . As a result there was little for the man to do at home . The husbands in closer marriages tended to protect their ...
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