Idleness

Name: Idleness
Brand: Edinburgh University Press
SKU: 9781788214544
Price: 3650 KES
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ISBN: 9781788214544

by Ashwin Kumar , Katy Jones

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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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