Citizenship and Employment: Investigating Post-Industrial Options. (book reviews)

Jocelyn Pixley's book deals with one of the crucial issues of the 1990s. By the end of 1993 unemployment is forecast to reach 36 million in the OECD countries, yet there has been relatively little popular or governmental concern over the past two decades about the reemergence of mass unemployment and its implications for democracy and citizenship.

Pixley surveys and criticizes the arguments of the 'post-industrialists', including Gorz and Offe, who believe that structural economic changes have made present unemployment levels irreversible. They call for a redefinition of 'work', the ...

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