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Full Employment: The Elusive Quest
Author(s) -
Hall K.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
asia pacific journal of human resources
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.825
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1744-7941
pISSN - 1038-4111
DOI - 10.1177/103841118402200104
Subject(s) - full employment , unemployment , economic shortage , malaise , work (physics) , economics , labour economics , marshall plan , spanish civil war , political science , political economy , economic growth , law , cold war , government (linguistics) , mechanical engineering , linguistics , philosophy , engineering , immunology , biology , politics
During the early post‐war “reconstruction” years most Western countries enjoyed full and frequently overfull — employment. Whilst this led some commentators to voice concern regarding the lack of discipline in the work force which goes with a shortage of workers, such a malaise was not universally noted, and was in any case submerged in the euphoria surrounding the assumption that the scourge of unemployment had been conquered. The consensus pointed to the view that a Keynesian manipulation of the economy would continue to provide full employment and that designs for full employment such as Britain's war‐time Beveridge Plan had been realised. Now matters are rather different.