Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-x5gtn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-30T19:26:58.770Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The Social Costs of Unemployment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2023

Alan Morris
Alan Morris*
Affiliation:
School of Social Science and Policy, University of New South Wales
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

The last two decades have witnessed the unraveling of the Keynesian consensus and full employment that characterized the quarter century after World War II. Inequality and poverty have deepened and hundreds of thousands of Australians no longer have job security and are being intermittently or permanently shut out of the formal economy. This review article examines the social costs of unemployment focusing on The Price of Prosperity: The Economic and Social Costs of Unemployment (TPOP) edited by Peter Saunders and Richard Taylor.

The TPOP is an ambitious endeavour to quantify the costs of employment in a number of areas. Thus there are chapters on the impact of unemployment on health, poverty, inequality, indigenous Australians, youth, the family, crime and urban neighbourhoods. The chapters are consummate reviews of major Australian and international studies on the impact of unemployment, making the book a key text.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Economic and Labour Relations Review , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , December 2002 , pp. 207 - 225
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 2002

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Australian Council of Social Services (2002) New Freedom of Information Data Shows: $200 million in fines pushes unemployed & students deep into poverty, Media Release, 5 August.Google Scholar
Argyrous, G. (2002) ‘Social Security Programs as A Shell Game: Hiding the Unemployed’, Human Rights Defender, 11 (3), 3–8.Google Scholar
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) (2002), Census, 2001, Canberra: Australian Bureau of Statistics.Google Scholar
Bagnall, D. (2001) ‘A Class of their Own’, The Bulletin, 27 June.Google Scholar
Beatty, C., Fothergill, S., MacMillan, R. (2000) ‘A Theory of Employment, Unemployment and Sickness’, Regional Studies, 34 (7), 617–630.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Biddle, D. (2001) Youth Unemployment and Government Policy in Australia in Mitchell, W. and Carlson, E. (Eds), Unemployment, the Tip of the Iceberg, The Centre for Applied Economic Research, University of New South Wales, Sydney.Google Scholar
Birrell, B., Seol, B-S. (2001) ‘Sydney’s Ethnic Underclass’, People and Place, 6 (3), 1–16.Google Scholar
Bowles, S., Gintis, H. (1976) Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life, Routledge, London.Google Scholar
Bryson, L. and Winter, I. (2002) ‘From Job Abundance to Job Scarcity: Unemployment, Social Policy and Community Life, 1960s-1990s’ in Saunders, P. and Taylor, R. (Eds), The Price of Prosperity: The Economic and Social Costs of Unemployment, UNSW Press, Sydney. pp. 109–133.Google Scholar
Burbridge, A. and Shehan, P. (2001) ‘The Polarisation of Families’ in Mitchell, W. and Carlson, E. (Eds), Work Rich, Work Poor: Inequality and Economic Change in Australia, Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University, Melbourne.Google Scholar
Castells, M. (1983) The City and the Grassroots, University of California Press, Berkeley, California.Google Scholar
Chapman, B. and Gray, M. (2002) ‘Youth Unemployment: Aggregate Incidence and Consequences for Individuals’ in Saunders, P. and Taylor, R. (Eds) The Price of Prosperity: The Economic and Social Costs of Unemployment, UNSW Press, Sydney, pp. 86–108.Google Scholar
Collins, J., Noble, G., Poynting, S., Tabar, P. (2002) Gangs, Crime and Community Safety: Perceptions and Experiences in Multicultural Sydney, University of Technology, Sydney.Google Scholar
Connolly, L. (2003) Four Years Down the Street. Sydney Morning Herald. 13 February.Google Scholar
Considine, G., Zappala, G. (2002) ‘The Influence of Social and Economic Disadvantage in the Academic Performance of School Students in Australia’, Journal of Sociology, 38 (2), 129–148.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Doherty, L. (2002), HSC Pupils get Practical and Ditch Mathematics. Sydney Morning Herald, 21 October.Google Scholar
Gregory, R. (1999) ‘Children and the Changing Labour Market, Paper presented at the Conference, Labour Market and Family Policies: Implications for Children’, Canberra, 14–15 July.Google Scholar
Gregory, R. (2002) ‘Can this be the Promised Land? Work and Welfare for the Modern Women’, Canberra: Department of Family and Community Services.Google Scholar
Harris, E., Morrow, M. (2001) ‘Unemployment is a Health Hazard: The Health Costs of Unemployment’, The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 12 (1), 18–31.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Headey, B. (2002) ‘The Psychological Impact of Unemployment’, in Saunders, P. and Taylor, R. (Eds), The Price of Prosperity: The Economic and Social Costs of Unemployment, UNSW Press, Sydney, pp. 194–212.Google Scholar
Hunter, B. and Taylor, J. (2002) ‘An Overview of the Costs of Indigenous Unemployment’ in Saunders, P. and Taylor, R. (Eds), The Price of Prosperity: The Economic and Social Costs of Unemployment, UNSW Press, Sydney, pp. 109–133.Google Scholar
McCallum, A. (2003) Let’s Make it the Year of Facing up to Poverty. Sydney Morning Herald, 1 January.Google Scholar
Marcuse, P (1996) ‘Race and Space in the Post-Fordist City: the outcast ghetto and advanced homelessness in the United States Today’ in Mingione, E. (Ed), Urban Poverty and the Underclass: A Reader. Blackwells, Oxford, pp. 176–216.Google Scholar
Merson, J. (2001) Stress: the Causes, the Costs and the Cures, ABC Books, Sydney.Google Scholar
Morrell, S., Page, A., Taylor, R. (2001) ‘Unemployment and Youth Suicide’, The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 12 (1), 4–17.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Murphy, P., Watson, S. (1997) Surface City: Sydney at the Millennium, Pluto Press, Annandale, NSW.Google Scholar
Nevile, A. (2001) State of the Family, 2001. Anglicare Australia, Melbourne.Google Scholar
Nevile, J. (2002) ‘Policies to Minimise the Costs of Unemployment’ in Saunders, P. and Taylor, R. (Eds) The Price of Prosperity: The Economic and Social Costs of Unemployment, UNSW Press, Sydney, pp. 249–271.Google Scholar
Pearson, N. (2001) ‘Rebuilding Indigenous Communities’, in Bosman, P. and Latham, M. (Eds) The Enabling State: People before Bureaucracy, Pluto Press, Sydney, pp. 132–48.Google Scholar
Pixley, J. (1993) Citizenship and Employment: Investigating Post-Industrial Options, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.Google Scholar
Raper, M. (2000) Examining the future of the welfare state and the need for innovative approaches to service delivery. Acoss Info 211, June.Google Scholar
Sassen, S. (1994) Cities in a World Economy, Sage Press, Thousand Oaks.Google Scholar
Saunders, P. and Taylor, R. (Eds) (2002) The Price of Prosperity: The Economic and Social Costs of Unemployment, UNSW Press, Sydney.Google Scholar
Saunders, P. (2002) ‘Introduction: The Reality and Costs of Unemployment’ in Saunders, P. and Taylor, R. (Eds), The Price of Prosperity: The Economic and Social Costs of Unemployment, UNSW Press, Sydney. pp. 1–12.Google Scholar
Saunders, P. (2002) ‘The Impact of Unemployment on Poverty, Inequality and Social Exclusion in Saunders, P. and Taylor, R. (Eds), The Price of Prosperity: The Economic and Social Costs of Unemployment, UNSW Press, Sydney. pp. 175–193.Google Scholar
Stilwell, F. (1993) Reshaping Australia: Urban Problems and Policies, Sydney: Pluto Press.Google Scholar
Tabakoff, J. (2002) Magnet Schools Bring Parents Running. Sydney Morning Herald. 12 June.Google Scholar
Taylor, J. (2002) ‘Unemployment and Family Life’ in Saunders, P. and Taylor, R. (Eds), The Price of Prosperity: The Economic and Social Costs of Unemployment, UNSW Press, Sydney. pp. 65–85.Google Scholar
Taylor, R. and Morrell, S. (2002) ‘The Health Effects of Unemployment’ in Saunders, P. and Taylor, R. (Eds), The Price of Prosperity: The Economic and Social Costs of Unemployment, UNSW Press, Sydney. pp. 109–133.Google Scholar
Wacquant, L.J.D. (1996) ‘Red Beit, Black Belt: Racial Division, Class Inequality and the State in the French Urban Periphery and the American Ghetto’ in Mingione, E. (Ed), Urban Poverty and the Underclass: A Reader. Oxford: Blackwells. pp. 234–274.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Weatherburn, D. (2002) ‘The Impact of Unemployment on Crime’ in Saunders, P. and Taylor, R. (Eds) The Price of Prosperity: The Economic and Social Costs of Unemployment, UNSW Press, Sydney. pp. 226–248.Google Scholar
Willis, P. (1977) Learning to Labour, Saxon House, Farnborough.Google Scholar
Wilson, W.J. (1987) The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.Google Scholar
Wilson, W.J. (1996) When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.CrossRefGoogle Scholar