Unemployment makes people passive and withdrawn rather than radicalized.

Evidence

Contrary to expectations that unemployment would radicalize its victims, social psychologists found that the jobless became passive and withdrawn, socially as well as politically. As my economic situation becomes more dire, my focus narrows to personal and family survival. — Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone The Collapse and Revival…, 641

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Economic retrenchment produced defensive embourgeoisement rather than further radicalization — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 140; Income losses from bank collapse radicalize voters more than equivalent general income declines — Sebastian Doerr et al., Financial Crises and Political…, 108; Boredom and job loss can drive politically inactive people into radicalization — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects…, 10

Broader Connections

• Economic retrenchment produced defensive embourgeoisement rather than further radicalization #corroborates (0.86) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 140