Socialist Unemployment

Author : Susan L. Woodward
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691219656
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Socialist Unemployment written by Susan L. Woodward and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first political analysis of unemployment in a socialist country, Susan Woodward argues that the bloody conflicts that are destroying Yugoslavia stem not so much from ancient ethnic hatreds as from the political and social divisions created by a failed socialist program to prevent capitalist joblessness. Under Communism the concept of socialist unemployment was considered an oxymoron; when it appeared in postwar Yugoslavia, it was dismissed as illusory or as a transitory consequence of Yugoslavia's unorthodox experiments with worker-managed firms. In Woodward's view, however, it was only a matter of time before countries in the former Soviet bloc caught up with Yugoslavia, confronting the same unintended consequences of economic reforms required to bring socialist states into the world economy. By 1985, Yugoslavia's unemployment rate had risen to 15 percent. How was it that a labor-oriented government managed to tolerate so clear a violation of the socialist commitment to full employment? Proposing a politically based model to explain this paradox, Woodward analyzes the ideology of economic growth, and shows that international constraints, rather than organized political pressures, defined government policy. She argues that unemployment became politically "invisible," owing to its redefinition in terms of guaranteed subsistence and political exclusion, with the result that it corrupted and ultimately dissolved the authority of all political institutions. Forced to balance domestic policies aimed at sustaining minimum standards of living and achieving productivity growth against the conflicting demands of the world economy and national security, the leadership inadvertently recreated the social relations of agrarian communities within a postindustrial society.

Author : Social Democratic Federation
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Socialism Made Plain and "The Unemployed" written by Social Democratic Federation and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. Porket
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230374220
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unemployment in Capitalist, Communist and Post-Communist Economies written by J. Porket and published by Springer. This book was released on 1995-04-03 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No modern economy can escape open unemployment as long as free labour and a free labour market exist. In any modern economy, there exists a tension between economic individualism and economic collectivism, but market forces cannot forever be denied. While Part 1 examines open and hidden unemployment in capitalist market economies and socialist command economies prior to 1989, Part 2 concentrates on the issue of unemployment in post-communist economies between 1989 and the end of 1993. Finally, Part 3 summarizes, re- examines, and expands on those selected dimensions of the issue of unemployment that are deemed currently to be relevant to both Western and post-communist economies. Although the book is primarily about unemployment, open as well as hidden, it also is about economic systems and their transformation and, hence, about the role of the state in the economy.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unemployment ... why? written by and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Shandar Laxman Gokhale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unemployment Problem written by Shandar Laxman Gokhale and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anne Grey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780851245959
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rights of the Unemployed written by Anne Grey and published by . This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marsha Siefert
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9633863384
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Labor in State-Socialist Europe, 1945–1989 written by Marsha Siefert and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Labor regimes under communism in East-Central Europe were complex, shifting, and ambiguous. This collection of sixteen essays offers new conceptual and empirical ways to understand their history from the end of World War II to 1989, and to think about how their experiences relate to debates about labor history, both European and global. The authors reconsider the history of state socialism by re-examining the policies and problems of communist regimes and recovering the voices of the workers who built them. The contributors look at work and workers in Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia. They explore the often contentious relationship between politics and labor policy, dealing with diverse topics including workers’ safety and risks; labor rights and protests; working women’s politics and professions; migrant workers and social welfare; attempts to control workers’ behavior and stem unemployment; and cases of incomplete, compromised, or even abandoned processes of proletarianization. Workers are presented as active agents in resisting and supporting changes in labor policies, in choosing allegiances, and in defining the very nature of work.

Author : G. E. Raine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Present-day Socialism, and the Problem of the Unemployed written by G. E. Raine and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alfred Russel Wallace
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465610731
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Remedy for Unemployment written by Alfred Russel Wallace and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reason why I wrote the present pamphlet (which first appeared in the “Socialist Review,” and is now reprinted in a slightly modified form) was that, although there is a small body of avowed Socialists in Parliament, not one of them has, so far as I am aware, upheld any of the fundamental principles of Socialism as a means of dealing with the greatest of present-day problems—that of chronic unemployment and starvation all over our land. Let me illustrate what I mean by a few examples. Perhaps the most fundamental and universally admitted axiom of Socialism is that all production should be, primarily, for use and not for profit; and the next in importance is that the true or proper wages of labour is the whole product of that labour. But neither in Parliament nor out of it has a single voice been raised to show that these principles must be adopted in any permanent solution of the problem, or to explain how they can be applied far more easily and economically than any of the suggested alleviations. All the talk has hitherto been of securing trade union rates of wages for out-of-works of every kind; and the underlying idea has always been that of the non-Socialist worker—that the Government provision of work must not be looked upon as permanent, but only as enabling the worker to live till the capitalist employer again requires him. An equally non-Socialist view was put forth by one of the most respected Socialists in Parliament when he advocated the immediate construction of light railways all over the country in order that when labour was brought back to the land the products could be carried economically to market, implying that the “products” were to be sold, thus competing in the market with those of other producers, lowering prices, and altogether ignoring the great Socialist principle of “production for use.” In the discussion of this question it has been totally overlooked that by a proper organisation of the labour of the permanently or temporarily unemployed, as well as of all those whose employment does not supply them with the means of a thoroughly sufficient and healthy existence, all the necessaries and comforts of life can be produced in our own country, just as they were produced down to a few centuries ago. I will now proceed to the exposition of the whole subject.

Author : Socialist Labor Party
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War and Unemployment written by Socialist Labor Party and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: