Securing the Right to Employment: Social Welfare Policy and the Unemployed in the United States (Princeton Legacy Library) - Softcover

Harvey, Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0691605068 ISBN 13: 9780691605067

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2014

Synopsis

Basing his proposal on plans developed by New Deal social welfare administrators, Harvey analyzes the feasibility and desirability of using public sector job creation to secure a right to employment. He shows that such a policy would provide more effective relief from the problems of poverty and unemployment than do existing arrangements while permitting a major expansion in the production of public goods and services without increasing tax burdens. The economic side-effects and administrative problems associated with the policy are carefully explored and found manageable. Finally, the book concludes with an assessment of the political interests that stand in the way of policy initiatives like the one proposed.

Originally published in 1989.

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About the Author

Photographe et intervenant au Rectorat de Paris et a l'Ecole des metiers de l'image, Philip Harvey a deja publie plusieurs ouvrages au Chene dont Figurines et soldats de plomb et Paris coups de coeur.

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0691605068
• ISBN 13: 9780691605067
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 162