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Full Employment at Living Wages

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  • Thomas Vietorisz

    (New School for Social Research, New York)

  • Robert Mier

    (Research Center for Economic Planning, New York)

  • Bennett Harrison

    (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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The theme of this article is true full employ ment : the opportunity for all to work for living wages. Under the heading of a full employment policy, we reject the creation of substandard jobs, no matter how many. A policy of guaranteed employment that fails to provide for living wage levels could easily turn into a device for forcing reluctant workers into substandard jobs. A true full employment policy must rest on three principles: (1) a guarantee of the right to useful job opportunities for all workers; (2) the creation of standards for family living wages, at least for principal wage earners, since a pure employment policy with no proper wage standards will merely succeed in reproducing poverty; and (3) a com prehensive framework of manpower, production and capac ity planning. Without this, a job guarantee at living wages is sure to fail, because the task of full employment policy is enormous. It must not merely create millions of jobs; it must upgrade tens of millions.

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  • Thomas Vietorisz & Robert Mier & Bennett Harrison, 1975. "Full Employment at Living Wages," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 418(1), pages 94-107, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:anname:v:418:y:1975:i:1:p:94-107
    DOI: 10.1177/000271627541800110
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