American Unemployment : Past, Present, and Future /

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"The history of unemployment and many concepts surrounding it remain a mystery to many Americans. Frank Stricker believes we need to understand this essential thread in our shared past. American Unemployment is an introduction for everyone that takes aim at misinformation, willful deceptions, a...

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Autor principal: Stricker, Frank (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Unemployment.
Social conditions.
Economic history.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
Unemployment > United States > History.
United States.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
États-Unis > Conditions economiques.
United States > Social conditions.
United States > Economic conditions.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I: History Lessons: 1873-2018
  • 1 Discipline for the Unemployed
  • Laissez-Faire for Business (1873-1920)
  • 2 The Twenties and the Thirties: Boom, Bust, and New Deal
  • 3 Full Employment: Experiments and Battles (1940-1974)
  • 4 Low Unemployment + Low Inflation: Can't Be Done, Is Done (1975-2000)
  • 5 Low Pay, Great Recession (2001-2018)
  • Part II: Real Numbers, Explanations, Remedies
  • 6 The U.S. Unemployment Rate: Development and Debate
  • 7 Why So Much Unemployment?
  • 8 Real Full Employment: Where Capital Fails, How Government Can Succeed
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Back Cover

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