Anthony O’Donnell is Senior Lecturer in Law at La Trobe University, Melbourne.

• 1. A Disorganised Labour MarketThe British Context Social Surveys, the Casual Worker and the Problem of Unemployment The Employment Relationship in Australia Regularising Work in Australia 2. Defining Unemployment: Pre-War Endeavours The Census Trade Unions Social Insurance 3. The Labour Exchange Solution The Labour Exchange in British Social Thought The Labour Exchange in Pre-War Australia Wartime Labour Administration and the Directorate of Manpower 4. Social Policy in Wartime Designing an Unemployment Benefits Scheme The White Paper on Full Employment 5. Unemployment in a Time of Full Employment The Post-War Labour Market Statistics: Counting UnemploymentThe Work Test: Regulating Unemployment Unemployment and Industrial Disputes6. Limiting Unemployment The Married Woman The Remote-Area Aboriginal Australian The ‘Dole Bludger’7. Reinventing Unemployment The Demise of the Standard Employment Relationship Towards an ‘Active Society’ From Work Test to Activity Test Making Agreements Enforcing ComplianceUnemployment Benefit or Basic Income? Manipulating the Means Test 8. Marketing Unemployment The CES in the Post-War Labour Market The End of the Public Employment Service in Australia: The First Phase The End of the Public Employment Service in Australia: The Second Phase The Evolution of the Job Network Contracts All the Way Down?

It is often thought that people are either employed or unemployed. Inventing Unemployment helps to unpack why and how a rigid divide between the two categories is not particularly helpful in understanding either one ... Inventing Unemployment is an important and compelling book which furthers understandings of the employment–welfare nexus.

Anthony O’Donnell is Senior Lecturer in Law at La Trobe University, Melbourne.

• 1. A Disorganised Labour MarketThe British Context Social Surveys, the Casual Worker and the Problem of Unemployment The Employment Relationship in Australia Regularising Work in Australia 2. Defining Unemployment: Pre-War Endeavours The Census Trade Unions Social Insurance 3. The Labour Exchange Solution The Labour Exchange in British Social Thought The Labour Exchange in Pre-War Australia Wartime Labour Administration and the Directorate of Manpower 4. Social Policy in Wartime Designing an Unemployment Benefits Scheme The White Paper on Full Employment 5. Unemployment in a Time of Full Employment The Post-War Labour Market Statistics: Counting UnemploymentThe Work Test: Regulating Unemployment Unemployment and Industrial Disputes6. Limiting Unemployment The Married Woman The Remote-Area Aboriginal Australian The ‘Dole Bludger’7. Reinventing Unemployment The Demise of the Standard Employment Relationship Towards an ‘Active Society’ From Work Test to Activity Test Making Agreements Enforcing ComplianceUnemployment Benefit or Basic Income? Manipulating the Means Test 8. Marketing Unemployment The CES in the Post-War Labour Market The End of the Public Employment Service in Australia: The First Phase The End of the Public Employment Service in Australia: The Second Phase The Evolution of the Job Network Contracts All the Way Down?

It is often thought that people are either employed or unemployed. Inventing Unemployment helps to unpack why and how a rigid divide between the two categories is not particularly helpful in understanding either one ... Inventing Unemployment is an important and compelling book which furthers understandings of the employment–welfare nexus.

Anthony O’Donnell is Senior Lecturer in Law at La Trobe University, Melbourne.

• 1. A Disorganised Labour MarketThe British Context Social Surveys, the Casual Worker and the Problem of Unemployment The Employment Relationship in Australia Regularising Work in Australia 2. Defining Unemployment: Pre-War Endeavours The Census Trade Unions Social Insurance 3. The Labour Exchange Solution The Labour Exchange in British Social Thought The Labour Exchange in Pre-War Australia Wartime Labour Administration and the Directorate of Manpower 4. Social Policy in Wartime Designing an Unemployment Benefits Scheme The White Paper on Full Employment 5. Unemployment in a Time of Full Employment The Post-War Labour Market Statistics: Counting UnemploymentThe Work Test: Regulating Unemployment Unemployment and Industrial Disputes6. Limiting Unemployment The Married Woman The Remote-Area Aboriginal Australian The ‘Dole Bludger’7. Reinventing Unemployment The Demise of the Standard Employment Relationship Towards an ‘Active Society’ From Work Test to Activity Test Making Agreements Enforcing ComplianceUnemployment Benefit or Basic Income? Manipulating the Means Test 8. Marketing Unemployment The CES in the Post-War Labour Market The End of the Public Employment Service in Australia: The First Phase The End of the Public Employment Service in Australia: The Second Phase The Evolution of the Job Network Contracts All the Way Down?

It is often thought that people are either employed or unemployed. Inventing Unemployment helps to unpack why and how a rigid divide between the two categories is not particularly helpful in understanding either one ... Inventing Unemployment is an important and compelling book which furthers understandings of the employment–welfare nexus.