Frontmatter — Introduction — Contents — Contributors — Part I Unemployment: Economic and Statistical Aspects — A Critical Assessment of Some Recent Approaches to the Theory of Unemployment — A General Equilibrium View of Unemployment — Employment Relations and Employment Processes — Transitions Between Labour-Market States – An Empirical Analysis Using Danish Data — The End of Expansion in Employment in Germany: Beginnings of an Attempt at Evaluation of Structural Unemployment as a Partial Component of Joblessness — Multiple Spells of Unemployment – The Danish Experience — Turnover and Employment Among Youth: Causes of the Particular Problems of Youth Employment — Short- and Long-Run Consequences of Shorter Working Hours — Deregulation, Structured Labour Markets and Unemployment — Unemployment, the Labour Queue and Positive Feedback in the Labour Market — Part II. Unemployment: Sociological, Medical and Psychological Aspects — Unemployment and Trade Unions in Britain: the Politics of Industrial Relations in the Crisis — Trade Union Strategy Towards Unemployment at the Local Level — Youth Employment in the United States: Problem, Structure, Policy — Implementation of Danish Youth Employment Policy — Unemployment in the Federal Republic of Germany: Recent Empirical Evidence — Some Health Effects of the Closure of a Danish Shipyard a Three-Year Follow-Up Study — Unemployment and the Cultures of Young Women — Female Unemployment and Knowledge of Self — Backmatter