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Global Labour Flexibility
Guy Standing
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Description for Global Labour Flexibility
Paperback. What models of distributive justice can the 21st century promote to challenge the spread of insecurity, inequality and social fragmentation? This book presents a vision combining security of income and representation without moralistic state control. Num Pages: 457 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCFM; KCL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 582.
What models of distributive justice can the twenty-first century promote to challenge the spread of insecurity, inequality and social fragmentation? The twentieth century was dominated by competition between two labour models of society - state socialism and welfare state capitalism, which promoted forms of labour security. Since the 1970s globalization and flexible labour markets have increased insecurity and inequalities. After a period dominated by libertarianism, politicians and social thinkers must find ways of promoting distributive justice, based on basic security and new forms of voice representation and regulation. Dismissing the approach of the `new paternalists', this book presents a vision ... Read more
What models of distributive justice can the twenty-first century promote to challenge the spread of insecurity, inequality and social fragmentation? The twentieth century was dominated by competition between two labour models of society - state socialism and welfare state capitalism, which promoted forms of labour security. Since the 1970s globalization and flexible labour markets have increased insecurity and inequalities. After a period dominated by libertarianism, politicians and social thinkers must find ways of promoting distributive justice, based on basic security and new forms of voice representation and regulation. Dismissing the approach of the `new paternalists', this book presents a vision ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
457
Condition
New
Number of Pages
441
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333776520
SKU
V9780333776520
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99-15
About Guy Standing
Guy Standing is Senior Economist for International Labour Office, Geneva, Switzerland.
Reviews for Global Labour Flexibility
'Guy Standing, an imaginative economist at the International Labour Organisation, provides us with a stimulating analysis of the labour markets of the industrialised economies during the past century.' - Robert Taylor