What do the unemployed do?

The delinking of activities from employment status allows a better understanding of what the unemployed do, or as CPHS informs us, what is the nature of occupation of the unemployed

Journalists reporting from the field and taxi-driver-schooled psephologists paint a picture of the unemployed hanging around in small groups at street kerbs, around tea-stalls or cigarette shops. This is not an inaccurate description of people who are not employed. But, it is of course, not complete. Most young unemployed people don’t hang out. Reporters don’t ask people why they are hanging out with others. It is mostly assumed that this is because they could not find any fruitful employment and have nothing else to do. We will check into this “nothing else to do”.

Street-kerbs and tea-stalls seem to discriminate against