The dole queue is doomed

Gordon Brown has announced that soon jobseekers will be able to sign on online, at homeThe announcement this week by Gordon Brown that the dole queue may be about to disappear as signing on, along with other government agencies' business, goes online, sadly doesn't indicate that unemployment itself is about to disappear. But it does represent a different way of imagining the condition of joblessness.The dole queue is the most obvious visual symbol of the long-standing economic scar of unemployme...

Read full article Share article