The article investigates the experience of job-loss and the following unemployment. Based on the ethnographic research conducted in Valenza, Italy, between 2008 and 2012, the article challenges an interpretation of unemployment as a liminal phase. I argue former workers experience unemployment as a “Limbo” – an existential condition underpinned by the ambiguity of being and at the same time not-being a worker. The exploration of this “Limbo” sheds light on the emotional, physical and symbolic labour that laid-off workers undertake facing their new condition. This research offers elements to read the loss of a job as an exit from a community of practices and to investigate the ways in which individual negotiate this departure
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This article provides an overall look at the history of unemployment in Italy from unification up to...
We have entered the age of the contingent or temporary worker, the consultant and the subcontractor....
Increasingly high unemployment has brought with it a multitude of consequences affecting those witho...
Based on fieldwork conducted at the outset of the current economic downturn, this paper examines the...
This article explores the formation of work identities in times of financial crisis and extreme aust...
This qualitative study explores the experiences of occupational engagement during short term unemplo...
Based on longitudinal fieldwork with unemployed managers and professionals in their 50s, the article...
There have been many international comparisons of unemployment (in the sense of the ILO), usually me...
As a consequence of global labor market reorganization, unemployment has become the unavoidable fate...
This chapter explores the extent to which long-term unemployment can lead to social exclusion, payin...
This study investigated, through a phenomenological mode of inquiry, the experience of unemployment ...
Can the unemployed use their socio-economic status of jobless to refuse work, and more particularly,...
The economic crisis started in 2008 has heavily hit labour markets even in rich regions, spreading u...
Introduction. Jahoda (1981) described unemployment as a negative event that deprives the individual ...
Background: Solutions for the problem of long-term unemployment are increasingly shaped by neolibera...
This article provides an overall look at the history of unemployment in Italy from unification up to...
We have entered the age of the contingent or temporary worker, the consultant and the subcontractor....
Increasingly high unemployment has brought with it a multitude of consequences affecting those witho...