Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Looking forward to full employment : an overview / John Philpott -- 2. Full employment in a market economy / Andrew Britton -- 3. A price worth paying? : the costs of unemployment / David Piachaud -- 4. What do women want from full employment? / Jill Rubery -- 5. Full employment for men and women / Patricia Hewitt -- 6. Why manufacturing still matters : working with structural change / Christine Greenhalgh, Mary Gregory -- 7. Technical change and unemployment / Christopher Freeman -- 8. Does globalization threaten low-skilled western workers? / Richard B.Freeman -- 9. Can economics solve the problem of unemployment? / Paul Ormerod -- 10. Building full employment without low pay / Chris Pond -- 11. Regulation vs deregulation : which route for Europe's labour markets? / David Marsden -- 12. Preventing long-term unemployment / Richard Layard -- 13. Full employment : the role of the public sector / Chris Trinder -- 14. Bargaining for full employment / William Brown.

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