Experience of Unemployment

SHEILA ALLEN is Research Professor of Sociology at the University of Bradford. She has published extensively in the areas of ethnic relations, gender and work.ALAN WATON is Pro-Vice Chancellor and Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Bradford. He is particularly interested in problems of analysing power in industrial societies and is currently engaged in research on ethnic minority use of the media.KATE PURCELL is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick. She has carried out research on manual workers' employment expleriences and attitudes to work, with a particular interest in the sexual division of labour and the relationship between class and gender.STEPHEN WOOD is Lecturer in Industrial Relations at the London School of Economics and Associate Fellow at Harvard University. He has written and edited several studies of work and employment.