Open AccessBook review: Unemployment in Africa: A psychological perspective
Author(s) -
Annemarie Joannides
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
sa journal of industrial psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.438
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 2071-0763
pISSN - 0258-5200
DOI - 10.4102/sajip.v31i1.181
Subject(s) - unemployment , perspective (graphical) , relation (database) , psychology , industrial and organizational psychology , sociology , population , psychological research , demographic economics , social psychology , economic growth , economics , demography , database , computer science , artificial intelligence
Authors: Webster Gonzo and Ilse Elisabeth Plattner\udPublishers: University of Namibia Press\udYear: 2003\udReviewed For: South African Journal of Industrial Psychology\ud
\udUnemployment 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