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THE MEANING OF UNEMPLOYMENT AND THE RIGHT TO WORK
Hans BerglindThis article has several purposes. One is to give some rather elementary facts about both the concept and scope of unemployment for those readers that are not specialists in the…
CHANGING CONCEPTS OF FULL EMPLOYMENT: DIVERGENT CONCEPTS, DIVERGENT GOALS
Helen GinsburgIn recent decades, substantial unemployment once again became commonplace enough in most Western industrial nations to erase the optimism that pervaded the early post‐World War II…
UNEMPLOYMENT AND MINORITY IMMIGRANTS IN CANADA
Patricia DaenzerThis paper explores the labour‐market status and experience of racial minorities in Canada, and examines and criticises labour‐market policy which ignores the employment and…
LIMITED OPTIONS FOR UNEMPLOYED WOMEN: POLICY AND PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS
Rosemarie C. Kopacsi“Services to the Unemployed” bring to mind responses which recognise the special needs of workers faced with sudden unemployment. Community‐based supports that can provide for…
UNEMPLOYMENT IS NOT A FATE
Jo BothmerThe policy of the 80's was based on the “no‐nonsense” rule. Everyone focused on the Reagan administration's conservative policy and its solutions were copied elsewhere. In this…
PLANNING FOR MILITARY RETIREMENT: DOES IT AFFECT SUBSEQUENT JOB/LIFE SATISFACTION?
David S. WolpertAs a result of the recent changes in world politics, especially in Eastern Europe (and between the United States and the Soviet Union), there has been a re‐evaluation of the…
ONE TYPE OF YOUTH EMPLOYMENT SERVICE: NON‐MILITARY SERVICE IN CANADA AND MEXICO
Michael Sherraden, Margaret Sherrard SherradenNon‐military service, sometimes called national service, refers to organised programmes in which young people engage in a period of service to the community or to the nation. Over…
FROM FOOL EMPLOYMENT TO GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS
Bertram GrossWhy isn't the four letter word beginning with f— used in the title of this conference.
PERSISTING UNEMPLOYMENT AND THE CRISIS OF WORLD PARADIGM SHIFT
Sheila D. CollinsAs a beneficiary of what media, economic and political elites called “the longest economic expansion in the peacetime history of the United States”, George Bush was elected to the…
FULL EMPLOYMENT IS NEITHER FEASIBLE NOR DESIRABLE
D. MacarovThe fact that full employment is not merely unfeasible but impossible is attested by all history. With the exception of relatively short periods, usually accompanied by war, no…
FULL EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIAL WELFARE POLICY
Michael SherradenWith the ups and downs of the economy, unemployment comes and goes as a public policy issue. As of November 1990, the official US unemployment rate stood at 5.9 percent, above the…
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