Politics and Jobs : The Boundaries of Employment Policy in the United States /

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"Americans claim a strong attachment to the work ethic and regularly profess support for government policies to promote employment. Why, then, have employment policies gained only a tenuous foothold in the United States? To answer this question, Margaret Weir highlights two related elements: th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Weir, Margaret, 1952-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1993 (1992)
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Public service employment.
Manpower policy.
Full employment policies.
Marche du travail > États-Unis.
Plein emploi > États-Unis.
Creation d'emplois > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Emploi > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Public service employment > United States.
Manpower policy > United States.
Full employment policies > United States.
United States.
États-Unis > Politique sociale.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"Americans claim a strong attachment to the work ethic and regularly profess support for government policies to promote employment. Why, then, have employment policies gained only a tenuous foothold in the United States? To answer this question, Margaret Weir highlights two related elements: the power of ideas in policymaking and the politics of interest formation. Rather than seeing policy as a straightforward outcome of public preferences, she shows how ideas frame the problems and how interests form around possibilities created by the interplay of ideas and politics." "By examining Keynesian macroeconomic policy in the 1930s and 1940s, labor market policies in the 1960s and 1970s, and efforts to develop new planning mechanisms in the late 1970s, Weir shows how early decisions restricted the scope for later initiatives. As a result, policies in the 1960s emphasized racial differences and thus drew opposition for creating special interest measures for African-Americans. Highlighting the limited capacities of the American national state, employment policy also attracted charges of waste, fraud, and corruption. By the 1970s, antipathy to the federal government and racial antagonism dominated the politics in this field, and any ideas for new programs quickly became entangled with preexisting problems."--Jacket
Notas:Second Printing. (First Princeton paperback printing 1993. Copyright 1992.).
Descripción Física:1 online resource (262 pages): illustrations ;
ISBN:9780691227856

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