General Article Are 'cultures of worklessness' passed down the generations?

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This research was undertaken with families in neighbourhoods of Glasgow and Middlesbrough who had experienced extensive worklessness. Qualitative life-history interviews with different generations of the same family allowed us to investigate the extent to which long-term detachment from the labour market might be accounted for by a ‘culture of worklessness’.

 

The aims and background of the research

The idea that worklessness can be explained, at least in part, by the familial inheritance of ...

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