The full employment illusion
- 1 January 1987
- journal article
- other
- Published by SAGE Publications in Critical Social Policy
- Vol. 6 (18) , 4-8
- https://doi.org/10.1177/026101838700601801
Abstract
This is a summary and continuation of an important debate begun at the last CSP conference in Sheffield. Drawing on their recent book, 'After Full Employment' (reviewed in this issue), John Keane and John Owens argue that a return to the post-war policy of full male employment is neither feasible nor desirable. They propose instead the redistribution of work together with a guaranteed income for all. Michael Rustin disputes all this. Full employment, he argues, can be restored if an appropriate political strategy is pursued; to divorce income from work on the other hand is ethically unattractive and politically and economically unwork able. Keane and Owens will reply in the next issue of CSP,Keywords
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