- Do we understand what unemployment is when we talk about it?
- Do we exactly comprehend what we mean when we say that: 'someone is unemployed'?
- What do unemployed people experience?
- How far is the life of the unemployed from the image created by those who define national policies for dealing with unemployment?
- How distant is their life from what those who analyze it describe, mainly criticizing the 'rationality' of these policies?
- What policy for addressing unemployment would be effective?
If these questions were critical a few years ago, when employment policies attempted to legitimize the absence of work and the withdrawal of the State, today, in the era of the Great Crisis, the New Catastrophe, the Great Unemployment, they are posed coercively.
And it is to these questions that this sociological analysis of unemployment policies seeks to respond, addressing the forms of experience and consciousness of unemployment, and the social conditions of their production, contributing to the dismantling of the economy of misery imposed by today's political-economic dominance of a neoliberal perspective.
[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]
