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Work and Idleness - The Political Economy of Full Employment (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)
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Work and Idleness - The Political Economy of Full Employment (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)
Series: Recent Economic Thought, 66
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Work and Idleness develops the view that redistributing employment
is a feasible capitalist' solution, not just to the unemployment
which particular groups suffer, but also to the work that others
have to contend with, including many women. Putting the
redistribution of employment on the policy agenda opens up debate
on how to ensure a more equitable and fulfilling relationship
between the ways we gain our livelihoods and the lives we lead.
Growing insecurity in labour markets and changing patterns in the
commodification of labour have led to a redistribution of paid and
unpaid labour time as the structure of power relations, the gender
order, discrimination, and state regulation have been modified. The
first main trend affecting insecurity is mass unemployment and the
growth of workless households. A second notable trend is a
gender-based redistribution of hours worked. The third major trend
is a shift from full-time waged work to full-time self-employment.
Part I of this book presents the main economic theories driving the
continuing divide between the intensification of work and the
extension of idleness. Part II documents the ways in which the
shift to mass idleness in advanced industrial countries has hit
some groups particularly hard: the youngest and oldest age groups
and other groups, including disabled workers, have traditionally
been subject to discrimination in the labor markets. Part III
provides a set of policy prescriptions.
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