Book Review
Book review: Unemployment in Africa: A psychological perspective
Submitted: 29 October 2005 | Published: 29 October 2005
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Annemarie Joannides, Wits University, South AfricaFull Text:
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Unemployment in an African country is a concisely written and well-structured book, which investigates the psychological impact of unemployment on Namibia’s ‘street unemployed’. This term refers to the large population of men who wait alongside the roads and at traffic intersections, in the hope of being offered causal employment. Essentially the books seeks to understand and evaluate the psychological experience of these men, in relation to several theoretical perspectives and with regards to the investigative research that was carried out by the authors.
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