Narrating Unemployment by Douglas Ezzy

Author:Douglas Ezzy [Ezzy, Douglas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Business & Economics, Labor, General, Social Science, Sociology
ISBN: 9781351915922
Google: YzUrDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-07-05T04:32:54+00:00

Job Loss as an Ironic Tragedy

White (1973:9) suggests that in tragedies there are no festive occasions ‘except false or illusory ones’. This is precisely the experience in ironic tragic narratives. The celebration of escaping an oppressive job turns out to be illusory. Three of the interviewees’ narratives are ironic tragedies. The job loss is ironic in the sense that typically the person chose to leave their last job hoping to improve their situation. However, the very act that was intended to bring release actually resulted in a considerably worse situation, that of being unemployed for a significant period of time. As is illustrated in Figure 5, this job loss narrative follows the same tragic pattern of decline after the job loss and describes an unrealised preferred work career against which the current unemployed status is compared.

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