Unemployment Insurance
Author: Daniel Nelson
Publisher:
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9780783716602
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Bold Relief
Author: Edwin Amenta
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2000-04-09
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780691050683
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAccording to conventional wisdom, American social policy has always been stingy. This book reminds the reader that 60 years ago the US led the world in social provision. He combines historical and political theory to account for this fact - and to explain why their leading role was short-lived.
From UI to EI
Author: Georges Campeau
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780774811231
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEstablished in 1940 in response to the Great Depression, the original goal of Canada’s system of unemployment insurance was to ensure the protection of income to the unemployed. Joblessness was viewed as a social problem and the jobless as its unfortunate victims. If governments could not create the right conditions for full employment, they were obligated to compensate people who could not find work. While unemployment insurance expanded over several decades to the benefit of the rights of the unemployed, the mid-1970s saw the first stirrings of a counterattack as the federal government’s Keynesian strategy came under siege. Neo-liberalists denounced unemployment insurance and other aspects of the welfare state as inflationary and unproductive. Employment was increasingly thought to be a personal responsibility and the handling of the unemployed was to reflect a free-market approach. This regressive movement culminated in the 1990s counter-reforms, heralding a major policy shift. The number of unemployed with access to benefits was halved during that time. From UI to EI examines the history of Canada’s unemployment insurance system and the rights it grants to the unemployed. The development of the system, its legislation, and related jurisprudence are viewed through a historical perspective that accounts for the social, political, and economic context. Campeau critically examines the system with emphasis upon its more recent transformations. This book will interest professors and students of law, political science, and social work, and anyone concerned about the right of the unemployed to adequate protection.
Dividing Citizens
Author: Suzanne Mettler
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780801485466
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRich with implications for current debates over citizenship and welfare policy, this book provides a detailed historical account of how governing institutions and public policies shape social status and civic life.
Two Centuries of Compensation for U.S. Production Workers in Manufacturing
Author: L. Officer
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009-05-11
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 0230621309
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProduction workers continue to be an important group in the economy. Two Centuries of Compensation for U.S. Production Workers in Manufacturing is the first long-run annual series of average hourly compensation for U.S. production workers in manufacturing. Officer reviews both data sources and existing literature on related historical series as well as using current official statistics. The new series provides original insights into the standard of living of these workers.
Out of Work
Author: Alexander Keyssar
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1986-03-31
Total Pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9780521297677
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOut of Work chronicles the history of unemployment in the United States. It traces the evolution of the problem of joblessness from the early decades of the nineteenth-century to the Great Depression of the 1930s. Challenging the widely held notion that the United States was a labour-scarce society in which jobs were plentiful, it argues that unemployment played a major role in American history long before the crash of the stock market in 1929. Focusing on the state of Massachusetts, Professor Kevssar analyses the economic and social changes that gave birth to the prevalent concept of unemployment. Drawing on previously untapped sources - including richly detailed statistics and vivid verbatim testimony - he demonstrates that joblessness was a pervasive feature of working-class life from the 1870s to the 1920s. The book describes the ingenious, yet quite costly, strategies that unemployed workers devised to cope with the joblessness in the absence of formal governmental assistance. It also explores the many dimensions of working-class life that were profoundly affected by recurrent layoffs and the chronic uncertainty of work. Finally, it demonstrates that the fundamental contours of the Massachusetts experience were repeated, sooner or later, throughout the United States.
Atlantic Crossings
Author: Daniel T. RODGERS
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-06-30
Total Pages: 671
ISBN-13: 0674042824
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text is an account of the vibrant international network that the American soci-political reformers constructed - so often obscured by notions of American exceptionalism - and of its profound impact on the USA from the 1870's through to 1945.
International Negotiation
Author: Fred Charles Iklé
Publisher:
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 2030
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEmploying Bureaucracy
Author: Professor of History and Management Sanford M Jacoby
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2004-04-12
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 1135705488
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDeftly blending social and business history with economic analysis, Employing Bureaucracy shows how the American workplace shifted from a market-oriented system to a bureaucratic one over the course of the 20th century. Jacoby explains how an unstable, haphazard employment relationship evolved into one that was more enduring, equitable, and career-oriented. This revised edition presents a new analysis of recent efforts to re-establish a market orientation in the workplace. This book is a definitive history of the human resource management profession in the United States, showing its diverse roots in engineering, welfare work, and vocational guidance. It explores the recurring tension between the new professional order and traditional line management. Using a variety of sources, Jacoby analyzes the complex relations between personnel managers, labor unions, and government from the late 19th century to the present. Employing Bureaucracy: *analyzes the origins of the modern employment relationship's distinctive features; *combines a variety of disciplinary perspectives, from business and labor history to economics, sociology, and management; *shows the transformation of the American workplace over the course of the 20th century, from market-oriented to bureaucratic to recent efforts to move back to a market orientation; and *provides the single-best and most sophisticated history of the origins and development of the modern "HR" profession. For historians, social scientists, and practitioners, this book is a readable and rewarding study. With the future of work currently under debate, it is critical that the historical process that produced the modern American workplace is understood. Read the Workforce Management Magazine review about Employing Bureaucracy at www.erlbaum.com.
