Description
In this major new study - indispensable to anyone concerned with the contemporary tragedy of unemployment - Göran Therborn undertakes the first systematic comparison of unemployment structures and policies in the sixteen major OECD states. He demonstrates the inability of conventional economic theory to account for either the persistence of high unemployment amid renewed growth, or the wide diversity of jobless levels between different states. Contrasting the chronic. unemployment of the UK and Belgium with the relatively low unemployment in Sweden and Austria, he shows the consequences of different national economic strategies. Invoking the examples of Japan and the United States, he weighs the dangers of economic dualism and the creeping 'Brazilianization' of job markets. His carefully differentiated analysis concludes with a fascinating summary of the different politics of unemployment and their implications for an alternative strategy for the labour movement.
Book Information
ISBN 9780860918172
Author Göran Therborn
Format Paperback
Page Count 182
Imprint Verso Books
Publisher Verso Books
Weight(grams) 209g