Why am I unemployed?
Persons who become unemployed often feel at fault; often feel that they have failed in some way. This is a common sense view, but there are many complicated reasons why somebody might be made redundant. The reasons for unemployment could be, for instance, technological changes: the introduction of new machines in the work market does take jobs away from people. Changes in government policies or lack of new requisite skills due to no access to education or retraining are also often responsible for unemployment. None of these has anything to do with the individual worker. The fact is that one out of ten thousand might be made redundant because of laziness, but the rest are surplus because society has changed.
(Adaptado de R. Osborne e B. Van Loon, Introducing Sociology. Londres: Icon Books, 2004, p. 9-10.)
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