Liegt eine Ursache der anhaltend hohen Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland in der Höhe der Lohnansprüche der Arbeitslosen? Dieser Frage geht die Studie anhand empirischer Untersuchungen nach. Sie zeigt, dass die Lohnansprüche in Deutschland - auch im internationalen Vergleich - insg…
This book, published in 1978, looks at how attitudes and perceptions of joblessness have changed; what economics and philosophers have written about the problem over the centuries; what public officials, heads of state, and politicians have said and done about unemployment; and …
"This important book by a major historian is the first to study how the problem of people out of work has been understood and dealt with in the Western world. Garraty discusses the ambivalent attitudes that people have always had toward work and how attitudes and perceptions hav…
A study of the hidden ramifications and inequities of free-market capitalism explores its frequently devastating impact on economic and social values and opportunities.
"In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a major transformation was occurring in many spheres of society: people with every sort of disability were increasingly being marginalized, excluded, and incarcerated. Disabled but still productive factory workers were being…