Frontmatter -- Introduction -- Contents -- Contributors -- Part I Unemployment: Economic and Statistical Aspects -- A Critical Assessment of Some Recent Approaches to the Theory of Unemployment -- A General Equilibrium View of Unemployment -- Employment Relations and Employment Processes -- Transitions Between Labour-Market States – An Empirical Analysis Using Danish Data -- The End of Expansion in Employment in Germany: Beginnings of an Attempt at Evaluation of Structural Unemployment as a Partial Component of Joblessness -- Multiple Spells of Unemployment – The Danish Experience -- Turnover and Employment Among Youth: Causes of the Particular Problems of Youth Employment -- Short- and Long-Run Consequences of Shorter Working Hours -- Deregulation, Structured Labour Markets and Unemployment -- Unemployment, the Labour Queue and Positive Feedback in the Labour Market -- Part II. Unemployment: Sociological, Medical and Psychological Aspects -- Unemployment and Trade Unions in Britain: the Politics of Industrial Relations in the Crisis -- Trade Union Strategy Towards Unemployment at the Local Level -- Youth Employment in the United States: Problem, Structure, Policy -- Implementation of Danish Youth Employment Policy -- Unemployment in the Federal Republic of Germany: Recent Empirical Evidence -- Some Health Effects of the Closure of a Danish Shipyard a Three-Year Follow-Up Study -- Unemployment and the Cultures of Young Women -- Female Unemployment and Knowledge of Self -- Backmatter