Labor Policy of the Free Society, The
Author: Sylvester Petro
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Published: 1957
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1610162765
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Author: Sylvester Petro
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Published: 1957
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1610162765
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sylvester Petro
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Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780835795241
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: Michael Harrington
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-11-10
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 0520345819
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1959.
Author: Sylvester Petro
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Published: 2007
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781610160483
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProfessor Petro is one of the giants of the Austrian tradition, and he applied his talents to a particular area of specialization: labor policy. This 1957 book covers three main areas: US labor law and experience, the Austrian theory of labor/capital relations, and the true principle of free association at the heart of the free society. So as Petro sees it, labor economics isn't so much a unique branch of economics but rather the application of the general principles of economics to a specific area. This book then emerged as the definitive Austrian treatment of the topic, and remains so today. It is back in print after being unavailable for many decades. Published as part of the Mises Institute Student Series.
Author: Joseph Alton Jenkins
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Published: 1959
Total Pages: 58
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mozart G. Ratner
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Published: 1958
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Wilhelm Röpke
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Published: 1963
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1610164644
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Davenport
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Published: 1959
Total Pages: 12
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mark A. Lause
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2015-06-30
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 0252097386
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMonumental and revelatory, Free Labor explores labor activism throughout the country during a period of incredible diversity and fluidity: the American Civil War. Mark A. Lause describes how the working class radicalized during the war as a response to economic crisis, the political opportunity created by the election of Abraham Lincoln, and the ideology of free labor and abolition. His account moves from battlefield and picket line to the negotiating table, as he discusses how leaders and the rank-and-file alike adapted tactics and modes of operation to specific circumstances. His close attention to women and African Americans, meanwhile, dismantles notions of the working class as synonymous with whiteness and maleness. In addition, Lause offers a nuanced consideration of race's role in the politics of national labor organizations, in segregated industries in the border North and South, and in black resistance in the secessionist South, creatively reading self-emancipation as the largest general strike in U.S. history.