Should degrowth embrace the Job Guarantee?
| Autor: | Blake Alcott |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Full employment
Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment Strategy and Management media_common.quotation_subject Job guarantee Neoclassical economics Working time Employer of last resort Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Politics Degrowth Unemployment Economics Right to work Economic system General Environmental Science media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Cleaner Production. 38:56-60 |
| ISSN: | 0959-6526 |
| Popis: | Degrowth should consider the right to work – a Job Guarantee (JG) – as a way of making a smaller economy more just and socially sustainable. Economic shrinkage in richer countries is accompanied by increased unemployment, a bad enough problem in itself but also a barrier to voters’ acceptance of the degrowth path. Since being out of work is distinct from being poor, anti-poverty income policies should be approached separately. The JG is one of several paths to full employment, including reduced working time. This essay only briefly mentions some real-world JG programs and some technical objections. The main suggestion is to move employment from being a matter of economics, particularly economic growth, to being a political right. A right to work is necessarily effective and would avoid sacrificing the ecological and social goals of degrowth on the altar of full employment. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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