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Democracy for Jobs
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Working?
Stephen McBride examines the evolution of Canadian employment policy and topics such as education and training, the importation of labour, employment regulations and beneďts, and the decline of unions, concluding by suggesting policy alternatives that would place a higher priority on the needs and aspirations of employees.
Canadian Unemployment
The papers in this document are organized into three blocks, which address the weakening commitment to full employment in the period after World War II, the cyclical and structural components of unemployment, and the persistence of unemployment in the 1980s, respectively. It includes a description of the nature of the unemployment problem in Canada, and discusses some policy implications of the research.
Not Working
Some 300 alphabetical entries examine women of distinction in American theatre--actors, directors, designers, choreographers, playwrights, critics, agents, etc. The entries describe the women's professional contributions and provide biographical information and bibliographical materials. Two separate appendices contain listings by place of birth and by profession. Primarily a reference for college and university libraries. McBride argues that the return of high unemployment in Canada after decades of almost full employment can best be understood as the product of a political choice by policy makers--a choice linked to the preferences and growing power of Canadian business in the post-1975 period. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Employment without Inflation
The world economy has undergone a fundamental transformation in recent decades and theoretical structures inherited from the 1930s through the 1950s, while retaining large elements of truth, are inadequate to deal with current problems. Benjamin Higgins feels that for a society such as the United States a fiscal policy needs to be adopted that can deal simultaneously with existing unemployment and inflation. He suggests three possible governmental policies: stimulating a high rate of long-run growth, by use of reward innovations and by maintaining the highest possible level of scientific and technical activity; isolating regions that are generators of inflation and others that are pools for ...
