State Employment Policy in Hard Times

State Employment Policy in Hard Times

Author: Council of State Planning Agencies

Publisher: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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Two hundred years ago, Samuel Johnson observed that a society's level of civilization could be gauged by the manner in which it treated its poor. By that measure, the United States today is steadily losing ground. Whereas the number of officially defined poor dwindled steadily from the enactment of the Great Society programs in the mid-1960s, reaching a low of 24.5 million people in 1978, it has since risen to more than 32 million people. Although the economy continues to generate large numbers of new jobs, the basic unemployment rate continues to rise and current projections show little likelihood of unemployment rates consistently below 10 percent until some time after 1984, if then. In the years to come, the creation of an equitable and workable employment policy will be a major agenda item for politicians and policy makers at the state level, as well as for national leaders.


Politics in Hard Times

Politics in Hard Times

Author: Peter Alexis Gourevitch

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780801494369

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In Politics in Hard Times, Peter Gourevitch explores the common political factors that shape economic policy choices. He focuses on three periods of economic crisis--1873-1896, 1929-1949, and 1971 to the present--and compares policy choices made in Britain, France, Germany, Sweden, and the United States.


Workers in Hard Times

Workers in Hard Times

Author: Leon Fink

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2014-02-15

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0252095979

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Seeking to historicize the 2007-2009 Great Recession, this volume of essays situates the current economic crisis and its impact on workers in the context of previous abrupt shifts in the modern-day capitalist marketplace. Contributors use examples from industrialized North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia to demonstrate how workers and states have responded to those shifts and to their disempowering effects on labor. Since the Industrial Revolution, contributors argue, factors such as race, sex, and state intervention have mediated both the effect of economic depressions on workers' lives and workers' responses to those depressions. Contributors also posit a varying dynamic between political upheaval and economic crises, and between workers and the welfare state. The volume ends with an examination of today's "Great Recession": its historical distinctiveness, its connection to neoliberalism, and its attendant expressions of worker status and agency around the world. A sobering conclusion lays out a likely future for workers--one not far removed from the instability and privation of the nineteenth century. The essays in this volume offer up no easy solutions to the challenges facing today's workers. Nevertheless, they make clear that cogent historical thinking is crucial to understanding those challenges, and they push us toward a rethinking of the relationship between capital and labor, the waged and unwaged, and the employed and jobless. Contributors are Sven Beckert, Sean Cadigan, Leon Fink, Alvin Finkel, Wendy Goldman, Gaetan Heroux, Joseph A. McCartin, David Montgomery, Edward Montgomery, Scott Reynolds Nelson, Melanie Nolan, Bryan D. Palmer, Joan Sangster, Judith Stein, Hilary Wainright, and Lu Zhang.


EU Fiscal Policy Coordination in Hard Times

EU Fiscal Policy Coordination in Hard Times

Author: Charlotte Rommerskirchen

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2019-01-28

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 0192564218

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What happens to European Union (EU) fiscal policy coordination in hard times? Recent accounts of the EU have portrayed the union as plagued by an austerity regime and rampant moral hazard. Charlotte Rommerskirchen provides an alternative account of economic cooperation in Europe during the Great Recession and the European Debt Crisis. Drawing on Mancur Olson's theory of collective action, this volume combines evidence from statistical analysis and extensive interviews with key players. This book reaches an unexpected conclusion regarding the state of collective action in times of crises: Free riding was not rife. Despite heated accusations, member states crisis policies matched their fiscal room for manoeuvre. The real collective action failure is instead diagnosed in the inability to sanction free riders at the EU level and empowering erratic bond markets to discipline governments.


Hard Money, Hard Times

Hard Money, Hard Times

Author: Lars Osberg

Publisher: James Lorimer & Company

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9781550286120

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Eight leading economists discuss the recent history of monetary policy and its effects on the economy.


Hard Times: Impoverishment and Protest in the Perestroika Years - Soviet Union, 1985-91

Hard Times: Impoverishment and Protest in the Perestroika Years - Soviet Union, 1985-91

Author: William Moskoff

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-09-16

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 1315287870

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The book offers guidance to aspiring historians at every stage and in every walk of life, from practical advice on tackling and organizing projects to recommendations for finding and using resources of all kinds, whether at the local library or historical society or on the world wide web. It is intended to be a serious guide to the best practices for researchers as well as a good read as a collection of research stories. The author includes useful bibliographies, vetted websites, and practical advice on doing research well.


Schooling Reform In Hard Times

Schooling Reform In Hard Times

Author: Bob Linguard

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-09-02

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1135722064

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Based on research carried out under Labour governments throughout the 1990s in Western Australia, the authors consider the social, political and economic conditions under which policy is formulated, understood and enacted. They look at how the state structure affects the content and nature of policy statements and provide an outline of the history of policy developments and point to future possibilities and probabilities. Outcomes within funding ceilings, accountability frameworks and national guidelines are but some of the changes referred to. The emergence of competency-based standards in education and training in schools, workplaces and the professions is evident throughout Australia at state level, but the concern is whether issues of education should be played out within the state and outside civil society. The authors argue for the mediation in implementation of policy - rather than a lambasting of policy formulation and implementation. This text is intended for heads of education departments, PGCE, BEd. MEd. students and researchers interested in education policy and planning. Education policymakers, and educational historians.


Monthly Labor Review

Monthly Labor Review

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1980-07

Total Pages: 540

ISBN-13:

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Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews


Hard Times

Hard Times

Author: William Moskoff

Publisher: M.E. Sharpe

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9781563242144

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Examines the objective and subjective experience of economic decline as it affected ordinary Soviet citizens during the Gorbachev era. Moskoff examines key questions, such as the causes of food and goods shortages and the extent of declining living standards.