Cover

Half-title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

List of tables

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

1 Introduction

Unemployment, deservingness, and individualism

Outline of the book

2 The political economy of Northern Ireland and the anthropology of sectarianism

Unemployment and the political economy of Northern Ireland

Anthropology and the sectarian divide

Research setting: Mallon Park and Eastlough

The unemployed on means-tested benefits

3 Doing the double in Belfast: the general picture

Introduction

Eastlough

Mallon Park

Discussion: Mallon Park and Eastlough compared

4 Doing the double or doing without

Introduction

Back to Mallon Park

Wages, jobs, and benefits

Incomes

Some further themes

Discussion

5 The 'deserving' and the 'undeserving': administrative practice in a social security office

Introduction

Background

The evidence

Discussion

Conclusion

6 Claimants and the claiming process: the reluctant claimant

Introduction

Becoming a claimant

The reluctant claimant

Conclusion

7 Claimants and the claiming process: the assertive claimant

Introduction

Orientations prior to becoming unemployed

Mallon Park

Eastlough

Conclusion

8 The employed and the unemployed: conflict, discourse, and ideology

Introduction

Benefits, jobs, and life-styles

Conclusion

9 Conclusion

Notes

List of references

Index