Unemployment: Toward a Social Work Agenda

Unemployment: Toward a Social Work Agenda

Unemployment devastates millions of workers and their families by rupturing their financial, emotional, and social functioning. This article describes the dimensions of the problem and the toll it takes on the unemployed. It discusses the various assumptions about unemployment and the need to develo...

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Veröffentlicht in:Social work (New York) 1983-05, Vol.28 (3), p.211-216
1. Verfasser: Briar, Katharine Hooper
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Economic policy
Economic recessions
Employment
Full employment
Inflation rates
Social policy
Social service
Social welfare
Social work
Unemployment
Unemployment rates
United States
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Zusammenfassung:Unemployment devastates millions of workers and their families by rupturing their financial, emotional, and social functioning. This article describes the dimensions of the problem and the toll it takes on the unemployed. It discusses the various assumptions about unemployment and the need to develop more social policies related to unemployment and to improve social work services to the unemployed.
ISSN:0037-8046
1545-6846
DOI:10.1093/sw/28.3.211