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Jahoda
M: Employment and Unemployment: A
Social-Psychological Analysis (Cambridge
C.U.P. 1982)
Studying - like most commentators in this area - the effects of UN-employment
on individuals
Jahoda identified the latent functions of work - quoted in Furnham (1990):
"
- Work structures time.
- Work provides regularly shared experiences.
- Work provides experience of creativity
mastery
and a sense of purpose.
- Work is a source of personal status and identity.
- Work is a source of activity."