Waste collection; the last resort for the unemployed/ Kioumarth Amiri

The phenomenon of waste picking in the global market, especially in Iran, does not have a long history. This false profession emerged about three decades ago, following the lack of fair distribution of facilities and the widening gap between social classes, and with the increase of poverty and unemployment in Iranian society, it has become […]...

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“Mian-buri to death; Koolbari in border areas; the result of people being pushed to the margins due to unemployment/ Bahar Abbasi”“Death in the middle; smuggling in border regions; the consequence of people being marginalized due to unemployment/ Bahar Abbasi”

The term “Kolbar” is a painful one for people due to the occurrence of some bitter events, such as the killing and death of Kolbars in the snowy mountains of Kurdistan. It is a pain that is caused by the lack of jobs, factories and workshops in their hometowns, and the deprivation of any remedy […]...

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Poverty, need, and false occupations of this era and time / Morteza Hamounian

More than six years ago, official media in the Islamic Republic of Iran reported on a historic explosion of false jobs in the job market. These media outlets reported on 23 million workers in the Iranian job market, of which, according to the then Minister of Labor, seven million were engaged in false jobs. (1) […]...

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Street vendors and wanderers; employed or hidden unemployed?/ Keyumars Karimi

False occupations, whose main cause is chronic unemployment and deep-rooted poverty in underdeveloped countries (third world), have been plaguing our society for years; pseudo-employment that is neither a legitimate job nor has the support of organizations such as associations, unions, syndicates, etc. that can defend its members. It is neither a job with sufficient income […]...

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False occupation, another bread for validating government officials/ Fariborz Kalantari

False occupation is one of those attractive titles that many presidential and parliamentary candidates have sought to benefit from by showing their concern for it. These days, the situation of unemployment and lack of job has reached a point where people turn to fake jobs to escape unemployment. In other words, unemployment has reached such […]...

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Inefficient Management of the Corona Crisis and Youth Unemployment / Saeed Shirzad

More than 500 days have passed since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The virus has infected nearly 190 million people and caused over 4 million deaths, making it one of the deadliest epidemics in human history. This global virus has affected all countries, and its official outbreak in Iran was announced several months after […]...

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Violence and poverty; when unemployment creates crime. / Moein Khazaeli

The decrease in the general welfare level, especially the daily decrease in the household food basket in Iran, along with the increase in public dissatisfaction, is not the only effect of poverty, inflation, and unemployment. Sociologists and criminologists have been warning about the role of socio-economic factors in the emergence or at least increase of […]...

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Unemployment and cheap labor are the result of half a century of incorrect economic policies in Iran/Kiumars Amiri.

Economy in the world, whatever definition it may have, in these long years, has no symbol or manifestation in the Islamic Republic of Iran. It has been almost half a century that there is no place for a dynamic, real and scientific economy to be defined in this land. In the absence of a proper […]...

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“Coronavirus and seasonal workers; unemployment worse than illness/Moein Khazaeli”

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Unpredictability of Mental Health in Iranian Society / Majid Zarei

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Hassan Tayyi: An internship program can drive people towards entrepreneurship/ Ali Kalaei

  Conversation with Ali Kalai Dr. Hassan Tayyee is a professor and faculty member at Allameh Tabataba’i University. During part of the eleventh government, he served as the Deputy of Employment under Ali Rabiei, the Minister of Cooperatives, Labor, and Social Welfare. He is a distinguished academic in the field of employment and labor and […]...

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Alireza Sagafi: Internship is a failed plan.

Alireza Saqafi is a labor activist and member of the Association of Workers’ Rights Defenders and the Association of Iranian Writers. He, who is one of the veteran labor activists in Iran, has been repeatedly arrested and imprisoned by security forces for his labor activities. Saghefi, in an interview with the monthly magazine Khat-e-Solh, considers […]...

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