Reversing the Negative Experience of Unemployment: A Mediating Role for Social Policies?
Reversing the Negative Experience of Unemployment: A Mediating Role for Social Policies?
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扭转失业的负面经历：社会政策的中介作用？
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2018
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D. Sage
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D. Sage
本文探讨了为什么失业往往以一种深刻的消极方式经历，并探讨了社会政策的潜在中介作用。本文描述了三种主要的失业理论，它们通常被视为对失业有害影响的相互竞争、相互排斥的解释。随后，通过对失业人员的定性研究，作者认为这三种理论都是有价值的，可以综合成一个更广泛的解释，把失业的经历作为一个总体的损失过程。确定了三种损失形式：代理损失；丧失有偿工作的职能；失去社会地位。然后，文章探讨了如何通过社会政策干预来改善和加强这些形式的损失。最后，它提出了政策建议，以提高社会政策在扭转失业负面经验方面的有效性，并得出结论，这将需要对英国的福利国家进行重大改革。
This article examines why unemployment is often experienced in a profoundly negative way, and explores the potentially mediating role of social policies. Three dominant theories of unemployment are described, which are often treated as competing, mutually exclusive explanations of the deleterious effects of unemployment. Subsequently, and through drawing upon a qualitative study of unemployed people, it is argued that all three theories are of worth and can be synthesized into a broader explanation of the experience of unemployment as an overarching process of loss. Three forms of loss are identified: loss of agency; loss of the functions of paid work; and loss of social status. The article then explores how these forms of loss can be both ameliorated and intensified through social policy interventions. Concluding, it offers policy recommendations to increase the efficacy of social policies in reversing the negative experience of unemployment, with the conclusion that this will require significant reform of the UK welfare state.