In the mid-1980s the world's industrialised economies entered their
second decade of stagnant growth and mass unemployment paralleled only
by the Great Slump. Neo-conservative policies, which replaced
traditional Keynesian remedies, have been no more successful in halting
the inexorable increase in unemployment: the stigma of failure to deal
with unemployment has touched governments of all political extractions
from Conservative to Liberal to Social-Democratic. New perspectives on
the unemployment problem are needed and this book provides them.