After Full Employment

Taylor & Francis

After Full EmploymentAuthor(s): John Keane, John Owens\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367027186, 978-0367027186\nSynopsis\nFirst published in 1986. This book analyses, at an introductory level, the four main and competing political interpretations of the cause of unemployment and the future of paid work social democracy, free market liberalism, the disciplinary state, and utopian socialism. Considered together these four interpretations are highly revealing and challenging. They raise considerable doubts about the viability or desirability of policies design to get the jobless back to work. \n\nKeane and Owens central argument is that the post-war policy of full male employment, as well as its politic, economic and social preconditions, are not repeatable, Starting with Keynes and Beveridge, they explain how and why full employment welfare states developed in Britain and the US, and how they had in turn been .