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Securing the Right to Employment: Social Welfare Policy and the Unemployed in the United States
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Publishing Details
Full Title:
Securing the Right to Employment: Social Welfare Policy and the Unemployed in the United States
Contributors:
By (Author) Philip Harvey
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
23rd September 2014
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Other Subjects:
Social welfare and social services
Poverty and precarity
Dewey:
362.580973
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
162
Dimensions:
Width 178mm, Height 254mm
Weight:
28g
Description
Basing his proposal on plans developed by New Deal social welfare administrators, Harvey analyzes the feasibility and desirability of using public sector job creation to secure a right to employment. He shows that such a policy would provide more effective relief from the problems of poverty and unemployment than do existing arrangements while perm
