After Full Employment: European Discourses On Work and Flexibility.(Book review)
International Journal of Employment Studies, April, 2003 by Green, Roy
AFTER FULL EMPLOYMENT: EUROPEAN DISCOURSES ON WORK AND FLEXIBILITY Bo Strath (editor) PIE-Peter Lang, Brussels, 2000, 302 pp, USD 34:95, ISBN 90-5201-925-8
This edited volume is an attempt to interpret and explain--to the extent that anyone can--the 'transformation of the idea of full employment into the flexibility discourse' in the period since the monetarist challenge to the post-war ascendancy of Keynesian economics and the welfare state. This is indeed also the title of the research project which guided the development of the book at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. The book benefits from a broad sociological view of what was essentially a transformation of ideology--the 'conventional wisdom' as Galbraith once put it--and its use of...
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