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Why Mass Unemployment?: Its Hidden Causes and Outrageous Consequences and What Can Be Done about It

Why Mass Unemployment?: Its Hidden Causes and Outrageous Consequences and What Can Be Done about It

Stone, Jack
McCraw, Joe

Paperback

General Political Science

ISBN10: 1412087996
ISBN13: 9781412087995
Publisher: Authorhouse
Published: Jun 27 2006
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This book does not take a neutral stand on the issue of mass unemployment. It is an effort to expose capitalism's most outrageous feature - its compulsive need to use unemployment and the fear of unemployment to ensure the docility and subservience of its workers. Under the capitalist system, the stick of the fear of unemployment is necessary to keep workers' noses to the grindstone and make them perform to the satisfaction of their employers. The stick is needed because much work is boring, the carrot paid is less than a living wage, provides workers very little or no control over the work process, and stifles creativity - in short because the total carrot offered to numerous workers is so woefully inadequate. Under a different system, one in which working people participated fully in the decisions affecting what, how and for what purpose goods and services were produced; if we had a system based on economic democracy, there would be no need to use the stick of the fear of unemployment. The creativity of most of the millions of working people, now mostly dormant, would be awakened and the volume and quality of improvements and inventions especially in housing, energy, transit systems and health care would be so great as to tower high above and completely overshadow the number and purpose of the innovations created under the present system.

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