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The book "Social Security in the Balkans Volume 2" provides an overview of social policy in North Macedonia and Montenegro, focusing on the effects of neoliberal reforms in the region. The authors discuss the challenges faced in providing social security, including limited resources, high unemployment, an aging population, and emigration. They argue for the need to modify the current neoliberal approach and highlight the importance of understanding the logics of provision and the social power of society for potential transformation. This book will be useful for researchers in welfare state studies, social-ecological economics, and development studies. [Extracted from the article]

Pamela Philipose, A Boundless Fear Gripped Me: How the Other Half Lived in the Pandemic's Shadow. Yoda Press, 2023, 109 pages, ₹258 (Paperback). ISBN 978-9-38-257988-5. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The text "The Society of the Pandemic" is a review of the book published by José Luis Arriaga Ornelas in 2021 that describes the peculiarities of Mexican society during the COVID-19 pandemic. The author addresses topics such as economic stagnation, unemployment, inequalities, and the increase in violence. He also reflects on environmental conditions, resource exploitation, and the water access crisis. The problem of overweight and poor nutrition in Mexican society is highlighted, as well as increasingly diverse and complex family dynamics. Additionally, the importance of economic growth is mentioned, and the role of media and social networks in the digital era is criticized. The article also mentions inequality in public spending, the difficulty for young people to find employment, corruption in the political system, and the educational lag caused by the lack of access to the internet and digital devices during the pandemic. [Extracted from the article]

"Every 90 Seconds: Our Common Cause Ending Violence Against Women" by Anne P. DePrince is a book that examines the issue of violence against women (VAW) and the inadequacy of awareness in curbing it. DePrince argues that the lack of dignity, fairness, opportunity, and safety for victims of violence affects not only their livelihoods but also our communities. She emphasizes the need for intersectional and collaborative social justice approaches to address VAW and proposes trauma-informed, survivor-centered, skill-based, and restorative interventions. The book also highlights the self- and social alienation experienced by victims and the institutional failures that perpetuate VAW. [Extracted from the article]

The article is a review of the book "Faces and Supports of Vulnerability" edited by José Santiago. The book analyzes the concept of vulnerability in the field of Social Sciences and focuses on three groups: young people, unemployed individuals over 45 years old, and caregivers within the family network. The book uses the work of Danilo Martucelli to break down three ideal types of vulnerability: human, social, and socioexistential. Other theoretical references such as Ulrich Beck and Judith Butler are also mentioned. The chapters of the book analyze resilience and experiences of unemployment within these groups. The article analyzes precariousness in the socio-labor and economic sphere, highlighting insecurity and instability as characteristics of the current job market. It focuses on the current generation, which seeks employment and self-realization, and sees the lottery as an opportunity to have work and a life of their own. The article also addresses the topic of care and its importance in addressing vulnerability, highlighting gender inequalities and the lack of public coverage. The article proposes looking at vulnerability as a potential and calls for recognizing the responsibility of the socio-political sphere in relation to citizenship. [Extracted from the article]

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Crunch Time: How Married Couples Confront Unemployment. Many other things are praiseworthy about I Crunch Time. i Rao's book contributes to the sparse literature on women's unemployment and offers additional insights into the classic debate surrounding gender, unemployment, and housework. Book Review: Crunch Time: How Married Couples Confront Unemployment, by Aliya Hamid Rao. [Extracted from the article]

The book "Mexico facing the knowledge society: The difficult transition" by authors Enrique Cabrero, Víctor Carreón, and Miguel Guajardo highlights the importance of networking in science and technology policy in Mexico. It also emphasizes the importance of the knowledge economy and the generation and transfer of knowledge to promote economic development. The book presents scenarios for Mexico's future in relation to public science and technology policy, evaluates the government program to support businesses, and reflects on technological unemployment and the challenges of education in the Mexican economy. Additionally, it highlights three international experiences comparable to Mexico in terms of transitioning towards the knowledge society. The book provides elements for designing public policies that allow developing countries to take advantage of technological change and knowledge for their development. [Extracted from the article]

Unlike the rest of the content of the book, these are written in such a shorthand that likely only the authors or an experienced practitioner of the kinds of work described in the book would be able to interpret them. I think that a review of this book is particularly useful in helping potential readers determine whether to spend the time and money on it because I suspect that nothing in the title (and especially not the bit about "your organization's work operating system") actually tells you what it is about. [Extracted from the article]

Strengths of the Social Safety Net in the Great Recession: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance and Unemployment Insurance, edited by Christopher J. O'Leary, David Stevens, Stephen A. Wandner, and Michael Wiseman. The book focuses on two of the programs from within the U.S. welfare state that have been considered the "core" of the social safety net: the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and Unemployment Insurance (UI). They document how each of these states embodies a distinct policy environment, and how each had its own distinctive response to recession, which varied depending on state policy rules for SNAP and UI. [Extracted from the article]

A chief argument is that "job insecurity is the emotional engine that motivates submission to a system of intensive work demands and continual overload" (p. 67). Results.) work redesign approach were to increase the employees' control over when and where they do the work, promote social support for personal and family life, and manage high work demands by focusing on results rather than time spent in the office. Although employees were still working hard and facing the same high demands, they felt less emotionally drained by work. [Extracted from the article]

Trollinger shows how groups of workers agitated for government-funded unemployment relief as well as for the provision of social insurance. Becoming Entitled: Relief, Unemployment and Reform during the Great Depression. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "Offshoring of American Jobs: What Response From U.S. Economic Policy?," by Jagdish Bhagwati and Alan S. Blinder.

The article focuses on two books: "The Share Economy: Conquering Stagflation," by Martin L. Weitzman and "Inside the Circle: A Union Guide to QWL," by Mike Parker. Weitzman, argues that workers are doomed to mass unemployment and a stagnant standard of living as long as they adhere to their traditional system of regulating pay through standardized wage rates. Parker's book is a remarkable attack on the logic and practice of the cooperation strategy. Disturbed by what he saw happening to the United Automobile Workers as a result of its participation in quality of work-life programs, Parker took advantage of his periodic layoffs from 1982 to 1984 to examine what was happening to other unionists.

Focuses on author Rainer Maria Rilke, who arrived Paris to meet the controversial sculptor Auguste Rodin. Struggle faced by Rilke to support himself financially during periods of unemployment; Difficulties faced by him in his domestic life; Report that Rilke has recently reviewed the post-humous writings of a Norwegian poet, a collection of scratched-over jottings and aborted beginnings.

O'Donnell, Anthony, Inventing Unemployment: Regulating Joblessness in Twentieth-century Australia, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2019; 184 pp., ISBN: 9781509928217. O'Donnell traces changes in the construction of unemployment through twentieth-century Australia. [Extracted from the article]

Grøtta displays a huge decrease in the share of humanities graduates becoming schoolteachers. The so-called humanities debate, which in Norway emerged in the 1970s and continues today, shows that it has become difficult for the humanities to articulate its overall aims and legitimate its use of societal resources" (510). If deprofessionalisation of the humanities, parallel to the continued long-term increase in educational volumes, has contributed to unemployment or "mismatch" on the labor market, as the author suggests, it is essential to understand how this happened in order to come to terms with the challenges facing the humanities today. [Extracted from the article]

Enria, Luisa. Luisa Enria counters the blanket securitization of youth unemployment with her beautifully written book I The Politics of Work in a Post-Conflict State: Youth, Labour & Violence in Sierra Leone i . In the framing chapters, she narrates the history of the linking of development and conflict and takes on the securitization of youth and the securitization of employment. Enria's work will also be of interest to practitioners implementing youth job skills training as a peacebuilding intervention. [Extracted from the article]

In I Work and Livelihoods i , unemployment appears as the result of deindustrialisation and precarious work, but unemployment is not the topic of the collection. Lane, as an anthropologist, rightly asks, although in a rhetorical way, what is the difference then between employment and unemployment (p. 32)? A political economy approach of the type adopted in I Works and Livelihoods i could help to make sense of the diversity of responses to unemployment documented in I Anthropologies of Unemployment i . [Extracted from the article]