http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/services/Feed ${session.getAttribute("locale")} 5 http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:12083 People with psychosis face multiple barriers to employment that include demand-side phenomena such as inadequate labour demand and stigma, as well as supply-side characteristics such as clinical symptoms, educational disadvantage, co-morbidity with other disabilities and substance abuse, social isolation, an elevated likelihood of having a criminal record or history of homelessness and inadequate government employment policies. This paper proposes that the government provide a Job Guarantee consisting of jobs paid at the Federal Minimum Wage for all those who are willing and able to work. Job Guarantee jobs would provide purpose and a living wage while acting as a stepping-stone to other jobs. They would be tailored to the needs of individuals with psychosis through workplace adjustments that include flexible job design and working hours, graduated return to work, education of supervisors and co-workers, modifications to the physical environment and could incorporate vocational training to increase skills and productivity. 2012-11-21T03:18:45.601Z ]]> http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:12078 The political implications of the financial dependence of Australian Governments on the London financial houses prior to the Second World War are considered in relation to the preservation of unemployment as a social management tool. The induction and preservation of unemployment through private control over public finance is examined, with implications for interpreting present economic orthodoxy. 2012-11-21T00:36:42.876Z ]]> http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:825 This paper evaluates the effectiveness of disability employment policy in assisting people with psychiatric disability to find, or return to, paid work. We argue that the poor employment outcomes from current programs establish the need for a paradigmatic shift in the form of a state-provided Job Guarantee (JG) for people with psychiatric disability. In the absence of measures to generate suitable jobs, forthcoming changes to the eligibility criteria for Disability Support Pension will create risks rather than opportunities. Under the JG, the Federal Government would maintain a 'buffer stock' of minimum wage, public sector jobs to provide secure paid employment for this highly disadvantaged group. The role of the state in this alternative model is two fold. First, the state must provide the quantum of JG jobs required. Second, the state must ensure the design of jobs is flexible enough to meet the heterogeneous and variable support needs of workers. This will require effective integration of the JG scheme with mental health, rehabilitation and employment support services. 2012-04-02T00:45:56.142Z ]]> http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:10208 Useful insights into the basis of contemporary opposition to modern Job Guarantee proposals may be found in past struggles over the elimination of unemployment through state provision of employment. This paper examines issues raised by the proclamation and subsequent revocation of the 'right to work' by the republican government of France between February and June of 1848. 2012-02-28T00:10:03.598Z ]]> http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:10156 This paper offers a theoretical model for understanding how and why mass unemployment is preserved as part of a system of social domination and control. Drawing on these theoretical insights, a method of democratic social renewal is suggested, focussed on diminishing strategically controlled incentives in society. 2012-02-24T02:40:04.065Z ]]> http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:9046 This paper discusses the political resistance mounted in opposition to the Queensland Unemployed Workers Bill of 1919, a 'Right to Work' measure intended to establish full employment. This episode reveals the emergence of a strategy for preserving unemployment despite the enfranchisement of working people. 2011-09-23T06:20:09.430Z ]]> http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:6176 This paper argues for specific, major, institutional reforms capable of building a high-skilled internationally competitive labour force in Australia. It argues for replacing the current policy of maintaining labour underutilisation as a productivity driver, with a national system of counter-cyclical public sector employment (Job Guarantee) and skills formation infrastructure, organised on a regional basis. The first section introduces the issue of Australia's deficient skill formation capacity. Sections 2 & 3 summarise deficits in key labour market institutions, the Job Network and the tertiary education sector. Section 4 highlights the chronic failure of the private sector to provide supervised opportunities for novices to undertake skilled work. Section 5 argues that the state has a unique responsibility to act, while section 6 proposes necessary components of an institutional framework. The conclusion addresses the political question of opposition to full employment. 2010-05-07T05:41:15.498Z ]]> http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:5473 Modern opponents of full employment are strategically disinclined to openly defend their position, which creates distortion in the debate over direct methods of establishing full employment, such as the Job Guarantee. This study explores opposition to the full employment policy of the early British Labour Party known as the 'Right to Work' (RTW), which proposed that the state directly employ the unemployed in fully paid work of public benefit. Hostility to the RTW prior to and during the first decade of the 20th century is examined, including its abandonment by the Labour Party in 1911 in favour of unemployment insurance for some and labour exchanges. This episode supports the thesis that unemployment is preserved as a repulsive incentive to work and hence as an instrument of social domination. 2010-04-27T04:34:13.476Z ]]>