| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北大學 === 社會學系 === 93 === The Struggles of the Unemployed in Taiwan With a Study of Social Exclusion
The fast development of technology indeed brings more global marketing; it at the same time replaces the traditional businesses and industries as well. This rigorous social economical change further raises the already increasing rate of unemployment especially to the laborers who are elderly, less educated, and/or lacking of updated technology skills. The rationale of this study is to discuss the background characteristics of the unemployed under this particular social structure; to analyze the difficulties of the unemployed due to the lack of support from social resources. I would base my research on the recognition and awareness of Social Exclusion to describe and discuss the major effects reflected as the patterns of their struggles in utilizing the social resources during their long-term unemployment.
In addition, I would apply data analysis on the quantitative ness of the unemployed with an assumption that which is impacted by Social Exclusion. I will explain various survival situations with different background characteristics of the unemployed:
1. Examine the background characteristics of the unemployed in Taiwan from 1997-2001.
2. Analyze the strategies used by the unemployed to be active in the job market and how Social Exclusion influenced those unsuccessful cases.
3. Observe the correlation and variation between the characteristics of the unemployed and Social Exclusion.
The source of this study is pulled out from the sample of an official unemployment survey --- Executive Report of Primary Survey on Social Structural Change in Taiwan Area: Phase VI, Project II--- which was conducted in Taiwan in 2001.
Research has shown that aging unemployed tend to make living by approaching part-time or temporary labor work. The less educated unemployed who used to work with a smaller factory suffer the most financially--- least cash flow, savings or interest. While searching for a new job, this group tends to use the traditional networking with the help from family, relatives, or friends. The younger unemployed, in contrast, use more computer webs to match new job opportunities. The above mentioned background characteristics are the obvious obstacles in their job-hunting process. Overall, the lack of traditional job opportunities and low educational background are the major reasons that cause the frustration of the unemployed, and they finally lose hope in the entire job market.
Looking at the struggles of the unemployed in Taiwan, a group of negative factors actually affect each other as an ongoing circulation: aging, low inventory of job opportunity, low educational background, and lack of social resources. In order to survive and compete in the global wise economical hardship, the unemployed were forced to learn new knowledge, or master updated muti-technology skills in a timed pace without enough social supports. In Taiwan, the traditional social network relations used to be strongly deep-rooted in businesses, marketing and industries. However, due to fast, tremendous structural change of society, discouraging economic environment as well as the significant change of industry, this supporting system has been weakened and gradually loses its networking functions, which leads the issue of unemployment in Taiwan even more pessimistically.
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