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identity and status and finally, it enforces activity.? These Latent Functions echo strongly back to the ideas I put forward earlier about the functions of work.? Even Freud (1930 cited in 9.) stated work was a person?s strongest tie to reality and therefore it would seem, in general, that unemployment affects mental health far more than employment ever has.???? Over the past century there has been a numrous studies undertaken to try and discover the effects of unemployment but there is no real theory to bind the research and knowledge regarding this area together, and so there is often quite a gap between the theory and the research.? While unemployment rates rise in industrialised countries with the international division of labour leading to fewer jobs in the western world,

especially when to survive economically organisations replace jobs with technology, it is important that we look at the consequences that such increases in unemployment could have.? While work may have become more alienating and exploitative, the consequences on mental health? for the unemployed is still as drastic as it ever was and far worse then than being within employment.? Unemployment today doesn?t necessarily lead to deep poverty like it did in the depression of the 1930?s but the psychological consequences remain the same if not worse by the pressure placed on people within a consumer society with higher standards of living.? While the working environment of the 1930?s was much different to that of the 1980?s and? today, I hope, I have highlighted the severe negetive

consequences of unemployment on mental health through the use of theory and knowledge to gain a greater understanding of the experience of life without work. Endnotes1. Haye J & Nutman P ? Understanding the Unemployed ? The Psychological Effects of Unemployment?? ?????? (1981) Tavistock. 2. Fryer D & Ullah P ? Unemployed People: Social and Psycholgical Perspectives (1987) Open University ?????? Press. 3.? Jahoda M – Work, Employment, and Unemployment (1981) American Psycholgist, 36, 2. 4. Tv Eye ? 5th June 1980 ? Thames Television cited in 1 5. Pilgrim Trust 1968 cited in 1. (p.23.) 6. Jahoda M ? Employment and Unemployment (1982) Camberidge University Press7.? Warr P ? Comparison between employed and unemployed: twelve questions about unemployment and health in

Roberts, R, Finnegan, R, Gaille, D eds. ? New approaches to economic life (1985) Manchester University Press. 8. Balloch S, Hume C, Jones B, and Westland P ? Caring for unemployed people (1985) Bedford Sqaure Press.9. Smith R ? Unemployment and Health (1987) Oxford University Press10. Fryer D & Payne R ? Proactive behaviour in unemployment; findings and implications. Leisure studies??? 1984; 3: 273-95 cited in 9. ? BibliographyBalloch S, Hume C, Jones B, and Westland P ? Caring for Unemployed People (1985) ????????????????????????? Bedford Sqaure Press.Dodd V ??Overworked Britons feel ill and too tired for love.?The Guardian 5 March 2001 Haye J & Nutman P ? Understanding the Unemployed ? The Psychological Effects of????? ?????????????????????????????? Unemployment (1981)

Tavistock.Fryer D & Ullah P ? Unemployed People: Social and Psycholgical Perspectives (1987) ???????????????????? ?????Open University Press.Jahoda M – Work, Employment, and Unemployment (1981) American Psycholgist, 36, 2.Jahoda M ? Employment and Unemployment (1982) Camberidge University PressSmith R ? Unemployment and Health (1987) Oxford University PressWarr P ? Comparison between employed and unemployed: twelve questions about ??????????????? unemployment and health in Roberts, R, Finnegan, R, Gaille, D eds. ? ??????????????? New Approaches to Economic Life (1985) Manchester University Press.