Innovation and Employment

Innovation and Employment is a comprehensive study of the various aspects and principles of the problem of unemployment in Great Britain. It aims to provide new approaches and newfangled proposals that delineate from traditional methods of solving the problem of unemployment.

The formulation of a practical solution to the problem of unemployment is the main objective of the book. Prior to the presentation of the solution, correct facts and figures are gathered and the basic principles of employment are identified and explained. Finally, the author suggests the creation of a National Work Service to find a special job-fit between the self-starters and the unemployed, which hopefully can create a parallel economic arrangement of continuous economic growth.

Economists, labor planners, demographers, politicians, and students of economics and sociology will find this book invaluable.

Inhalt

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. The New Unemployment
   The History of the New Unemployment
   Forecasts of Future Unemployment
   Automation and the Unemployment Principle
   A Saturating Domestic Market?
   The Standard of Living of the Unemployed
   'Layabouts'?
2. Dealing with Unemployment
   The Jig-saw Pieces
   The First Jig-saw Piece - 'More Industrial Production'
   The Second Jig-saw Piece - 'The Siege Economy'
   The Third Jig-saw Piece - 'New Products'
   The Fourth Jig-saw Piece - 'Grow all our own Food'
   The Fifth Jig-saw Piece - 'Invite the Japanese to Manufacture in Britain'
   The Sixth Jig-saw Piece - 'Expand Services'
   The Seventh Jig-saw Piece - Back the Small Business'
   The Eighth Jig-saw Piece - 'Share the Work out'
   The Ninth Jig-saw Piece - 'The Natural Social Growth Areas'
   The Tenth Jig-saw Piece - Government Action for Unemployment
   A Review of the Jig-saw Pieces for the 'Cure' of Unemployment
3. Towards a Logic of Employment Principles
   The Need for Employment Principles
   The Pragmatic Approach through Anti-pain Law
   The Cost of Unemployment
   Human Happiness and Humanity Wealth
   Employment Principles Based on Human Capitalism
   The Practical Implications and Proposals
4. Employment by Expanding the Small Independent Businesses
   The Independent Business Community
   The Impediments to the Growth of Independent Businesses
   Small Businesses in the United States
   Unemployment and the Independent Businesses
   The Destruction of the Impediments So the Independent Businesses Can Employ Many More People
5. Innovation for New Products
   Inroads by the Foreigner
   Developing Products for the Nationalized Industries and the Welfare State
   The Need for 'Unique Products'
   The British Industrial Research Organization and Why it Does Not Innovate New Products
6. The Role of the Back-Room Boy and the Inventor
   British Inventive Genius
   The Problems of the Inventor
   Encouraging the Inventor and the Back-room Boys
7. A National Work Service
   'All Who Want to Work Shall Have Work' - Youth
   The National Work Service Related to Youth
   Would the Self-starters Collaborate?
   The Need for Vocation Colleges
   The Extension of the National Work Service to Adults
   Extension of the National Work Service to Innovating Back-room Boys
   The Use of the National Work Service and Vocation Colleges for General Job-matching
   The Costs of a National Work Service to Eliminate Unemployment at the 1978 Level
   'Just Jobs ' or 'Jobs for Wealth'?
   The Longer-term Future of the National Work Service
8. Summary of Proposals for Dealing with One Million Unemployed
   The Overall System
   Control at Ministry Level - Bringing it all Together
   Requirements to Actualize the Proposals
   Epilogue: Reflections on a Larger Canvas
   Bibliography
   Index