Download or read book Idle Hands written by Proffessor John Burnett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Idle Hands is the first major social history of unemployment in Britain covering the last 200 years. It focuses on the experiences of working people in becoming unemployed, coping with unemployment and searching for work, and their reactions and responses to their problems. Direct evidence of the impact of unemployment drawn from extensive personal biographies complements economic and statistical analysis.