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Actively seeking work? : the politics of unemployment and welfare policy in the United States and Great Britain / Desmond King.
Lippincott Library HD5765.A6 K557 1995
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- King, Desmond S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Full employment policies--Great Britain.
- Full employment policies.
- Hard-core unemployed.
- Welfare recipients--Employment.
- Great Britain.
- Full employment policies--United States.
- United States.
- Welfare recipients--Employment--Great Britain.
- Welfare recipients.
- Welfare recipients--Employment--United States.
- Hard-core unemployed--Great Britain.
- Hard-core unemployed--United States.
- Public welfare--Great Britain.
- Public welfare.
- Public welfare--United States.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 331 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1995.
- Summary:
- AcknowledgmentsIntroductionCh. 1: Work-Welfare in Great Britain and the United StatesCh. 2: "A Permanent Club for the Unemployed"? Establishing Labor Exchanges in Great Britain and the United StatesCh. 3: "Financial Succour for the Unemployed"? The Institutionalization of British and American ExchangesCh. 4: "A Cheap Pool of Forced Labor"? Work-Welfare Training PolicyCh. 5: Breaking the "Spider's Web of Dependency": The Pyrrhic Triumph of Modern Work-WelfareCh. 6: Conclusion: The Politics of InstitutionsAppendix: Comparative Tables on Work-WelfareNotesBibliography
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-316) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0226436217
- 0226436225
- OCLC:
- 30812091
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