Unemployment as a Historical Concept: An approach for research on history of unemployment in Iran

Abdolahi, Mohammad Javad

doi:10.22051/hii.2018.18162.1524

Document Type : Scientific-Research

Author

Mohammad Javad Abdolahi

PhD in History of Islamic Iran, University of Tehran

https://doi.org/10.22051/hii.2018.18162.1524

Abstract

In Iran, most research on history of unemployment has been conducted by government subordinate institutions. These studies have mostly tried to provide policies for the state in the field of unemployment, based on official figures derived from public censuses. The hidden assumption in these studies with quantitative methods is the a-chronic of economic concepts such as unemployment. However, what remains to be neglected in these researches is the heterogeneity of the meaning of economic concepts, such as unemployment in different periods. Therefore, the question in the present paper is how unemployment, as a concept that is usually static, can be transformed into a historical research subject, as a changing concept. The present paper claims that unemployment can be transformed into a subject for historical research as a changing concept, with the help of the approach of social historians in the terms of labor and unemployment concepts. As a matter of fact, it has been shown that how to go beyond these studies with quantitative methods in interpreting unemployment through describing the conflict between ideological dimension and the material reality of unemployment.

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Main Subjects

History of Islamic Iran

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Unemployment as a Historical Concept: An approach for research on history of unemployment in Iran

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Volume 28, Issue 40 - Serial Number 130
February 2019
Pages 59-79

Unemployment as a Historical Concept: An approach for research on history of unemployment in Iran

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Volume 28, Issue 40 - Serial Number 130February 2019Pages 59-79

Volume 28, Issue 40 - Serial Number 130
February 2019
Pages 59-79