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Author Harvey, Philip, 1946-

Title Securing the Right to Employment : Social Welfare Policy and the Unemployed in the United States.

Publication Info. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (161 pages).
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Series Princeton Legacy Library
Princeton legacy library.
Note Cover; Contents.
Summary Basing his proposal on plans developed by New Deal social welfare administrators, Harvey analyzes the feasibility and desirability of using public sector job creation to secure a right to employment. He shows that such a policy would provide more effective relief from the problems of poverty and unemployment than do existing arrangements while permitting a major expansion in the production of public goods and services without increasing tax burdens. The economic side-effects and administrative problems associated with the policy are carefully explored and found manageable. Finally, the book.
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Subject Public service employment -- United States -- Cost effectiveness.
Public service employment.
United States.
Cost effectiveness.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Harvey, Philip. Securing the Right to Employment : Social Welfare Policy and the Unemployed in the United States. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2014
ISBN 9781400860562 (electronic book)
1400860563 (electronic book)