After full employment
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After full employment
（Routledge library editions, . Employment and unemployment ; v. 4）
Routledge, 2019, c1986
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"This edition first published in 2019"--T.p. verso
Reprint. Originally published: London: Hutchinson, 1986
Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-192) and index
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Description
First published in 1986. This book analyses, at an introductory level, the four main and competing political interpretations of the cause of unemployment and the future of paid work - social democracy, free market liberalism, the disciplinary state, and utopian socialism. Considered together these four interpretations are highly revealing - and challenging. They raise considerable doubts about the viability or desirability of policies design to 'get the jobless back to work'.
Keane and Owens' central argument is that the post-war policy of full male employment, as well as its politic, economic and social preconditions, are not repeatable, Starting with Keynes and Beveridge, they explain how and why full employment welfare states developed in Britain and the US, and how they had in turn been replaced by the 'strong state, free market' programmes of Thatcher and Reagan.
By focusing on an issue which was, and still is, at the heart of political debate, the book provides a lucid and approachable guide to four key strands of political thought it Britain and the US. It will be an ideal introductory text for students of politics, sociology and economics.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Rethinking the Employment Society
- 1. The Development of a Full Employment Consensus 2. The Social Democratic Vision 3. The Era of Full Employment: From Attlee to Callaghan 4. The Disciplinary State 5. The Strong State and the Free Market 6. Populist Conservatism and Jobless Growth 7. Reagan's Disguised Keynesianism 8. Labour's Nostalgia for Full Employment 9. Beyond the Employment Society
- Bibliography
- Index
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