Securing the Right to Employment : : Social Welfare Policy and the Unemployed in the United States / / Philip Harvey.

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 une...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1989
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 1030
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Physical Description:1 online resource (162 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Tables
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER 1. The Missing Leg of U.S. Social Welfare Policy
  • CHAPTER 2. The Fiscal Feasibility of Providing Employment Assurance
  • CHAPTER 3. Combating Unemployment and Poverty
  • CHAPTER 4. Economic Side Effects of an EAP Jobs Program
  • CHAPTER 5. Administrative Problems and Opportunities
  • CHAPTER 6. Political Problems
  • Appendix: Sources and Assumptions for Tabular Data
  • Notes
  • Index