Work in Crisis confronts the issues that arise in a 'two-nation society' where some continue to work and others face long-term unemployment. It is one thing to be temporarily unemployed, it is quite a different experience to find oneself forced into a position of being outside the paid economy semi-permanently in one's adult years. This book explores in some depth the significance that paid employment has come to have in our lives. It analysis the experience of long-term unemployment and engages in the search for more acceptable social alternatives.