I admit I did not follow this thread
closely, what I'd like to know, where the EXTRA
jobs are coming from for these targeted
people?
Eva
I would like to share my concerns about an apparent contradiction in
the UK Employment Zones approach.
Reform of active labour market measures in
My compliments to Peter Stoyko for his very acute observations... I'ld
like to add a few comments based on my current and direct experience at
the "labour market measures 'coalface'" here in Cape Breton and rural
Atlantic Canada where the needs are the most acute and the options are the
most
On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Eva Durant wrote:
I admit I did not follow this thread
closely, what I'd like to know, where the EXTRA
jobs are coming from for these targeted
people?
Eva
Exactly the point made by Ken Clarke - the former Tory Chancellor of the
Exchequer and a Keynesian, even if
i
Greetings all...
Let me thank Michael Gurstein for his thoughtful response to my comments.
It rings true to my ears. Let me take this opportunity to add a few
additional notes.
On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Michael Gurstein wrote:
[snip]
From what I can see, in Canada we have the worst of both
A real difficulty with the degree of decentralization that is going on is
that success in employment creation in the current economy is going to
require more sophistication, more knowledge of the larger world
and larger economic forces, more capacity to link the local with the
regional, the
Employment zones are a local pilot application of the Blairite programme
of welfare to work, modelled on the US precedent. They seek to achieve
full employment but without assigning any power to workers which might
result from that. Full employment is very contradictory for capitalism. On
the one
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Greetings all...
I would like to share my concerns about an apparent contradiction in
the UK Employment Zones approach.
Reform of active labour market measures in Canada and the UK in the 1990s
has involved increases in targetting (but not money), by which I mean the
number of discrete
