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Securing the Right to Employment: Social Welfare Policy and the Unemployed in the United States
By (Author) Philip Harvey
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Social welfare and social services
Poverty and precarity
362.580973
Hardback
162
Width 178mm, Height 254mm
482g
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