Unemployment and Government
Subtitle: Genealogies of the Social (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 8, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780521643337
Subjects: Employment & unemployment; Unemployment; Public welfare; Business & Economics; Sociology; Labor; Sociology - General; Full employment policies--Great Britain--History; Social Science / Sociology / General; Great Britain; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Full employment policies; History
First sentence: Society is built up on labour; it lays upon its members responsibilities which in the vast majority of cases can be met only from the reward of labour ... its ideal unit is the household of man, wife and children maintained by the earnings of the first alone.