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List of contributors

Preface and acknowledgements

Introduction: Towards an alternative theory and policy on employment

Jonathan Michie

Angelo Reati

PART 1 THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT

Labour supply and unemployment

Antonio G. Calafati

Demand-and supply-side approaches to economic policy

Jonathan Michie

Christos Pitelis

Deindustrialization, unemployment and government policy: the UK experience

Michael Kitson

Jonathan Michie

Institutions and employment performance in different growth regimes

Eileen Appelbaum

Ronald Schettkat

PART II THE ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION

The present technological change: growth and employment perspectives

Angelo Reati

A micro-macro view of the causes of and remedies for unemployment in an integrating Europe

Andrew Tylecote

Product versus process innovation: implications for employment

Charles Edquist

Leif Hommen

Maureen McKelvey

Regional innovation strategies: can they combat regional unemployment?

Sara Davies

Kevin Morgan

PART III THE WORLD OF WORK

The employment relationship in transition

Eugenio Benedetti

Marco Rangone

Creating your own job: the behaviour of micro-business households in the risk society

Jane Wheelock

Susan Baines

In search of employment creation via environmental valorization: towards an eco-Keynesian mode of regulation and a sustainable regime of accumulation for Europe

Ray Hudson

Some alternative explanations of Irish unemployment

Charles M.A. Clark

Catherine Kavanagh

PART IV A POLICY AGENDA

Employment as a human right

Marc R. Tool

Full employment: past, present and future. An ILO perspective

Werner Sengenberger

Reforming the labour market through guaranteed incomes: a US perspective

Jeff Manza

Fred Block

The reduction of working time as a means of solving the unemployment problem

Angelo Reati

Index