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Author Ozolina, Liene, author

Title Politics of waiting : workfare, post-soviet austerity and the ethics of freedom / Liene Ozolina
Published Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2019]
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Description 1 online resource (1 volume)
Series Political ethnography
Political ethnography
Contents Intro; Front matter; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Series editor's preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Waiting as an organising logic; Temporalities of austerity; The anxious subject; The will to live; Spaces of the expelled; Epilogue: Waiting for freedom; References; Index
Summary This book is a political ethnography that examines how welfare programmes for the unemployed function as a contemporary form of state control
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 18, 2019)
Subject Unemployment.
Unemployment -- Latvia
Public welfare.
Public welfare -- Latvia
Public welfare -- Political aspects
Public welfare -- Political aspects -- Latvia
welfare services.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Services.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Comparative Politics.
Public welfare
Public welfare -- Political aspects
Unemployment
Latvia
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781526126269
1526126265
9781526126276
1526126273