Full Employment and Social Justice Solidarity and Sustainability /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Murray, Michael J. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Forstater, Mathew (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Binzagr Institute for Sustainable Prosperity,
• Subjects: Labor economics.; Social policy.; Welfare economics.; Environmental economics.; Social justice.; Human rights.; Labor Economics.; Social Policy.; Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy.; Environmental Economics.; Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.

This edited collection investigates how full employment programs can sustain the economy and the environment, promote social justice, and reinvigorate local communities. The contributing authors focus on the formation of institutions to eliminate the opportunity gap for marginalized populations, ena...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Unemployment and Transformational Growth in the Long Run
• 3. The Job Guarantee and Transformational Degrowth
• 4. Getting Serious about the Limits to Growth: ELR and Economic Restructuring under Decroissance
• 5. Public Works Programs as a Strong Means for Land and Water Conservation in Iran
• 6. Can Capitalist Modes of Production be Biophysically Sustainable?
• 7. Complementary Currencies in the Solidarity Economy: The Local Job Guarantee
• 8. On the Reservation: Toward a Job Guarantee Program for American Indian Nations
• 9. Full Employment and the Job Guarantee: An All-American Idea
• 10. Employment Guarantee Programs as Automatic Stabilizers: Stylized Facts on a Macro Context and Micro Structure for Argentina
• 11. An Institutional Adjustment towards an Inclusive Provisioning Process. .