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What is the relationship between work and unemployment, and what recent changes have there been in the UK?
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... Tom Kneafsey - 0350173 What is the relationship between work and unemployment, and what recent changes have there been in the UK? In this essay I will be looking at the relationship between work and unemployment. Unemployment is defined as those who wish to work, but are without a paid job. Work is harder to define. The official 'employed workforce' of the UK is officially - employees in employment, employers and the self-employment, the armed forces and those on government training schemes. This leaves un-paid work such as voluntary work or domestic housework unaccounted for. Generally speaking though, people who work are not unemployed. In the UK there are two methods of counting unemployment currently being measured. The Claimant Count was the official figure for many years in the UK. This changed when Labour came into power in 1997. They preferred the International Labour Organisation's (ILO) measure which is used in many














