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Based on multi-year ethnographic fieldwork on the Unemployed Workers' Movement in Argentina (also known as the piqueteros), Proletarian Lives provides a case study of how workers affected by job loss protect their traditional forms of life by engaging in progressive grassroots mobilization. Using life-history interviews and participant observation, the book analyzes why some activists develop a strong attachment to the movement despite initial reluctance and frequent ideological differences. Marcos Pérez argues that a key appeal of participation is the opportunity to engage in age and gender-specific practices associated with a respectable blue-collar lifestyle threatened by long-term socioeconomic decline. Through their daily involvement in the movement, older participants reconstruct the routines they associate with a golden past in which factory jobs were plentiful, younger activists develop the kind of habits they were raised to see as valuable, and all members protect communal activities undermined by the expansion of poverty and violence.

Protest movements --- Unemployed --- Political activity --- Jobless people --- Out-of-work people --- Unemployed people --- Unemployed workers --- Labor supply --- Persons --- Unemployment --- Social movements --- Poor --- Argentina --- Politics and government --- Economic conditions

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Business cycles --- Seasonal unemployment --- -Unemployed --- -Jobless people --- Out-of-work people --- Unemployed people --- Unemployed workers --- Labor supply --- Persons --- Unemployment --- Right to labor --- Unemployment, Seasonal --- Seasonal variations (Economics) --- Economic cycles --- Economic fluctuations --- Cycles --- Financial crises --- -Business cycles --- -Unemployment, Seasonal --- Jobless people --- Unemployed --- Business cycles.

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Labour market --- Social policy --- History of the Netherlands --- anno 1900-1999 --- -Public service employment --- -Unemployed --- -Jobless people --- Employment, Public service --- Work relief --- Full employment policies --- Public service employment --- Unemployed --- History --- Jobless people --- Out-of-work people --- Unemployed people --- Unemployed workers --- Labor supply --- Persons --- Unemployment --- Right to labor --- Economic assistance, Domestic --- Manpower policy --- Civil service --- Economic policy --- Employment stabilization

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Unemployed --- Biography --- Couderc, Régis, --- Jobless people --- Out-of-work people --- Unemployed people --- Unemployed workers --- Labor supply --- Persons --- Unemployment --- Right to labor --- Unemployed - France - Biography --- Couderc, Régis, - 1935 --- -Unemployed

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In Korea's dynamic labour market, job displacement (involuntary job loss due to firm closure or downsizing) affects many workers over the course of their working lives. Some workers are more vulnerable than others to this risk and may face long periods of unemployment/inactivity after displacement, particularly if their skills are not well-matched to emerging job opportunities. Even when they find new jobs, displaced workers tend to be paid less, have fewer benefits and are more likely to be overskilled than in the jobs they held prior to displacement. Helping displaced workers get back into good jobs quickly should be a key goal of labour market policy. To achieve this goal, Korea needs to increase resources devoted to re-employment programmes, such as job-search training and job matching, to improve their performance and better target those who need the most help. Existing training programmes need to be revised to ensure that people are obtaining skills that will help them find work. The social safety net also needs to be strengthened to lower the personal and societal costs of displacement, notably by improving the coverage of unemployment benefits.

Displaced workers --- Unemployed --- Services for --- Jobless people --- Out-of-work people --- Unemployed people --- Unemployed workers --- Labor supply --- Persons --- Unemployment --- Dislocated workers --- Displaced employees --- Employees, Displaced --- Workers, Displaced --- Korea, Republic of