Jobless Citizens

Political Engagement of the Young Unemployed

Marco Giugni, Jasmine Lorenzini

• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781349951413
• eBook ISBN: 9781349951420
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Labour Economics
• Index: Social Sciences

This book examines patterns of political engagement of long-term unemployed youth. The authors show how unemployment affects the personal, social, and political life of young people. Focusing on the case of Geneva in Switzerland, the study shows the importance of socioeconomic, relational, psychological, and institutional resources for the political engagement of unemployed youth. The book shows specifically how the relationship between unemployment and the political engagement of unemployed youth is mediated by a number of factors: their socioeconomic status and more generally their individual background, their level of deprivation and the associated degree of subjective well-being; the social capital that unemployed youth draw from involvement in voluntary associations and interpersonal networks and relations, and the political learning stemming from interactions with welfare institutions and their perception of such interactions.

Students and scholars in areas including Sociology, Political Science, Economics, Youth Studies and Social Policy will find this study of interest.

Table of contents

• Jobless Citizens
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Political Engagement of Unemployed Youth
• 3 Individual Background and Socioeconomic Status
• 4 Deprivation and Subjective Well-Being
• 5 Social Networks and Social Capital
• 6 Welfare State and Political Learning
• 7 Putting the Pieces Together
• 8 Conclusion
• Appendix 1 Descriptive Statistics for all Variables Included in the Models
• Appendix 2 Logistic Regressions, all Models for Political Consumerism
• Appendix 3 Logistic Regressions, all Models for Demonstrations
• References