04839nam a22005895i 4500 978-3-031-57156-5 DE-He213 20251030112056.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240523s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031571565 978-3-031-57156-5 10.1007/978-3-031-57156-5 doi BF39.9 JMA bicssc PSY045000 bisacsh JMA thema Pultz, Sabina. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 77322 Emotionally Indebted [electronic resource] : Governing the Unemployed People in an Affective Economy / by Sabina Pultz. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XIV, 220 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 1.Introduction -- 2.Governing Unemployed People Through Technologies of Power and Those of the Self -- 3. Setting the Scene -- 4.Governing the Active Jobseeker .-5. The Sticky Shame and What to Do with It .-6.Resisting the Shame and ‘Unemployed by Choice’ .-7. The Intimate Dance of Networking .-8. Unemployment Experiences During Covid-19: A Little Less Blame? . "Emotionally Indebted provides so many distinct and fascinating ways of looking at how people experience unemployment in the modern economy. Sabina Pultz leverages a thoughtful synthesis of research from around the world and her own perceptive and empathetic interviews to give us a rich understanding of the inner lives and struggles of jobless individuals." Victor Tan Chen, Associate Professor of Sociology, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA “Sabina Pultz’s remarkable book offers a critical account of how politics and psychology have remade the experience of unemployment under activation policies.” Ray Griffin, Senior Lecturer in Management & Organisation, South East Technological University, Ireland This book explores the lived experience of unemployment from a critical social psychological perspective. It connects the condition of unemployment to governance structures and wider societal issues, such as the labor market tendencies of precarity and enterprise culture. Based on qualitative data collected in Denmark and America, the book gives voice to unemployed people to critically discuss both the intended and unintended consequences of active labor market measures, as well as the frequent moral evaluations that surround unemployment. The author explores how unemployed people make sense of and deal with the demands and activities required by activation policies or ALMPs, which tend to make the job seekers responsible for finding a solution to their condition. Building from the subjective experience of unemployment, it maps the complex emotional demands on jobseekers who should feel shame and self-blame but also display motivation and passion on the labor market. Presenting emotions and feelings as pivotal instruments of the governmentality of worklessness, this book addresses the lack of critical discussion and research into the unemployment experience and offers a useful, provocative perspective for students, scholars, and practitioners alike in social psychology, social policy, economic policy, and related disciplines. Sabina Pultz is Associate Professor in Social Psychology at Roskilde University, Denmark. Her research focuses on (un)employment, (in)dignity, (in)equality, social psychology, emotions, comparative studies, marginalization, labor market research. She has been active in this field since 2014. . Critical psychology. 77323 Social psychology. 59087 Psychology, Industrial. 60537 Social policy. 60914 Economic policy. 58351 Mental health. 63229 Critical Psychology. 77324 Social Psychology. 59087 Work and Organizational Psychology. 68259 Social Policy. 60914 Socio-Economic Policy. 69624 Mental Health. 63229 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031571558 Printed edition: 9783031571572 Printed edition: 9783031571589 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57156-5 ZDB-2-BSP ZDB-2-SXBP 60077 60077