Talk by Charles Handy on how job shortages will not be completely solved by government intervention, and how part-time, marginal work is the future of employment. Handy begins the talk discussing how, increasingly, there will no longer be as many traditional full-time jobs in the domestic labor market, and how more people will be earning their keep by working as unpaid domestic workers. He goes on to talk about the likelihood of his predictions coming true before adding that his personal desire is to see the British government investing in the country's future stock. Handy proceeds to relate how the government could also create more jobs itself, employing more people in schools, hospitals, and local government and services, in order to stimulate economic growth. However, he does not see the government as capable of stopping current labor changes, arguing that the most useful thing politicians can do in the current economic climate is understand that these labor developments are not local difficulties but the beginnings of a major shift in the lives and patterns of industrialized societies. Handy goes on to identify three types of work, namely, job work, marginal work, and gift work, before delineating the three m’s of humankind and how important they are to all individuals. Ultimately, he calls for a new paradigm of work that embraces marginal and gift work, the consequence of not doing so being the creation of two societies, one which has jobs and another without them.
Handy, Charles B Hutchings, Gordon Unpaid labor Institute of Manpower Studies (Great Britain) Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543 Government spending policy Employment (Economic theory) Work Warwick Institute for Employment Research
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Talk by Charles Handy on how job shortages will not be completely solved by government intervention, and how part-time, marginal work is the future of employment, February 9, 1987; Charles Handy Papers; Box 18, Folder 19; 17 pages
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