Idleness
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Giants: A New Beveridge Report
ISBN-10
1788214544
ISBN-13
9781788214544
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Imprint
Agenda Publishing
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 20th, 2022
Print length
192 Pages
Weight
212 grams
Dimensions
12.90 x 19.70 x 1.50 cms
Product Classification:
Political economy
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We are stuck in a low-pay, low-productivity rut, with far too many people working in poor quality jobs, with barely any training and little chance of getting on. Bold thinking is required to reverse this trend. This book considers what can be done.
UK workers are stuck in a low-pay, low-productivity rut, with far too many people working in poor quality, insecure jobs, with little training or chance of getting on. Katy Jones and Ashwin Kumar question the mantra that “work is the best way out of poverty” and examine the in-work poverty that now defines employment for many. The state’s engagement with people out of work is shown to ignore the needs of lone parents and disabled people, and has little concern for skills and career progression. When coupled with the degradation of social infrastructure, such as child care and transport, the barriers to quality work can become insurmountable. Jones and Kumar’s insightful analysis reveals the need to move away from positioning unemployment as a “behavioural problem” to be corrected by coercive labour market policies to one that considers the wider obstacles to better paid, quality jobs.
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