Britain and the right to work: 1886-1912

Title: Britain and the right to work: 1886-1912
Creator: Quirk, Victor
Relation: International Journal of Environment, Workplace and Employment Vol. 3, Issue 3-4, p. 266-284
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJEWE.2007.019283
Publisher: Inderscience Publishers
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2008
Description: 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.
Subject: full employment; job guarantee; right to work; social domination; unemployment
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/43353
Identifier: uon:5473
Identifier: ISSN:1741-8437
Language: eng
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