15/04/2013

International publication on unemployment

CEM researcher launches book in France with a time of international investigators

Book by Didier Demazière, Nadya Araujo Guimarães, Helena Hirata and Kurumi Sugita. "Être chômeur à Paris, São Paulo, Tokyo - Une méthode de comparaison internationale", Presses de Sciences Po publisher, 320 p. (Being an unemployed in Paris, São Paulo and Tokyo - A method of international comparison).

Synopsis: The condition of being unemployed is marked by the obligation to seek job, but this definition hides heterogeneous international realities. The aim of this book is to explore the diversity of meanings of unemployment: how the unemployed live and interpret their situation in Paris, São Paulo and Tokyo? Unemployment has the same meaning everywhere?

The book traces the paths in which unemployment is experienced by men and women of different ages and social media in these three cities. This comparative approach identifies multiple scales of variation: International, with a universe of meanings common to the unemployed in the three countries; national, with the affirmation of reference models specific to each territory; and transnational, with overlap experiences with gender, age and social class, regardless of the country.

Outcome of investigations by in depth biographical interviews and a new method of international comparison, this book renews the knowledge on unemployment in a way as unique as exciting.

In this link you can access the Summary of the book (in French).
Review in La vie des Idéés journal: "Comparer les expériences: le cas du chômage", access here
Le Nouvel Observateur / Le Plus + (March) published article on the book: "Unemployment: how the demographics of France may weigh on the numbers, by Didier Demazière" access here
See the review published in Liens socio, June issue here.
The French magazine Alternatives Economiques published a review in July, access here.
In the October edition of Sciences Humaines a review was also published access here.
The newspaper La Marseillaise published review on October 3