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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency
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Published: 1945
Total Pages: 1610
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKConsiders legislation to establish a national policy and program for assuring continuing full employment in a free competitive economy, through the concerted efforts of industry, agriculture, labor, state and local governments, and the Federal Government.
Author: Stephen Kemp Bailey
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press
Published: 1950
Total Pages: 304
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the narrative "Full Employment Bill" from its birth in January 1945 to President Truman's signing in February 1946 to illustrate the formulation of public policy in the legislature.
Author: Michael Dennis
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2021-02-11
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1350179167
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough moments of social protest, policy debate, and popular mobilization, this book follows the campaign for economic democracy and the fight for full employment in the United States. Starting in the 1930s, Dennis explores its intellectual and philosophical underpinnings, the class struggle that determined the fate of legislation and the role of left-wing civil rights activists in its revival. Demonstrating how the campaign for full employment intersected with movements for women's liberation and civil rights, it explores how social groups and oppressed minorities interpreted and appropriated the promise of full employment. For many, full employment provided an indispensable path to racial and gender emancipation. In this book, Dennis uncovers the class dimensions and the resistance to full employment in the US. He demonstrates how the recurring debates over full employment consistently exposed the contradictions inherent in a capitalist society and challenged the assertion that an allegedly free enterprise system automatically generated employment for all.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Equal Opportunities
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 104
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William H. Beveridge
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-11-27
Total Pages: 442
ISBN-13: 1317569784
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeveridge defined full employment as a state where there are slightly more vacant jobs than there are available workers, or not more than 3% of the total workforce. This book discusses how this goal might be achieved, beginning with the thesis that because individual employers are not capable of creating full employment, it must be the responsibility of the state. Beveridge claimed that the upward pressure on wages, due to the increased bargaining strength of labour, would be eased by rising productivity, and kept in check by a system of wage arbitration. The cooperation of workers would be secured by the common interest in the ideal of full employment. Alternative measures for achieving full employment included Keynesian-style fiscal regulation, direct control of manpower, and state control of the means of production. The impetus behind Beveridge's thinking was social justice and the creation of an ideal new society after the war. The book was written in the context of an economy which would have to transfer from wartime direction to peace time. It was then updated in 1960, following a decade where the average unemployment rate in Britain was in fact nearly 1.5%.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Education and Labor
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 110
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. Senate. Banking and Currency Committee
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Published: 1945
Total Pages: 0
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Published: 1966
Total Pages: 23
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Equal Opportunities
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 368
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Scott Myers-Lipton
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-11-17
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1317260511
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPoverty and inequality are at record levels. Today, forty-seven million Americans live in poverty, while the median is in decline. The top 20 percent now controls 89 percent of all wealth. These conditions have renewed demands for a new economic Bill of Rights, an idea proposed by F. D. Roosevelt, Truman and Martin Luther King, Jr. The new Economic Bill of Rights has a coherent plan and proclaims that all Americans have the right to a job, a living wage, a decent home, adequate medical care, good education, and adequate protection from economic fears of unemployment, sickness and old age. Integrating the latest economic and social data, Ending Extreme Inequality explores each of these rights. Each chapter includes: an analysis of the social problems surrounding each right; a historical overview of the attempts to right these wrongs; and assessments of current solutions offered by citizens, community groups and politicians. These contemporary, real-life solutions to inequality can inspire students and citizens to become involved and open pathways toward a more just society.
