“Training becomes a way of avoiding the issue of unemployment… The orientation should be ‘Jobs first, training later’. Unfortunately the jobs policy of the federal programs has largely been the reverse with the result that people are being trained for nonexistent jobs… Jobs should be jobs and understood as such, not given the false label of ‘training’.” — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Additional Resources:
Forstater, Mathew. “Working for a Better World,” Philosophy and Social Criticism, 2014.
Forstater, Mathew. “Unemployment and Underemployment,” in P. Mason, ed., Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, 2nd ed., vol. 4, pp. 213-220, Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference, 2013.
Forstater, Mathew. “From Civil Rights to Economic Security: Bayard Rustin and the African American Struggle for Full Employment, 1945-1978,” International Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 36, No. 3 (2007).
Forstater, Mathew. “Working For A Better World: The Social and Economic Benefits of Employment Guarantee Schemes”
Forstater, Mathew and Pavlina Tcherneva (eds.). Full Employment and Price Stability: The Macroeconomic Vision of William S. Vickrey, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2004.
Forstater, Mathew “‘Jobs for All’: A Fitting Tribute to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,” in D. Menkart, A. D. Murray, and J. L. View, eds., Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching, Washington, D.C.: Teaching for Change and Poverty & Race Research Action Council, 2004.
Forstater, Mathew. “Full Employment and Social Justice,” in D. P. Champlin and J. T. Knoedler, eds., The Institutionalist Tradition in Labor Economics, Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 2004.
Nell, Edward J. and Mathew Forstater (eds.). Reinventing Functional Finance, Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 2003.
Forstater, Mathew. “Unemployment,” in The Elgar Companion to Post Keynesian Economics, John King (ed.), Edward Elgar, 2002.
Forstater, Mathew. “‘Jobs for All’: Another Dream of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,” Forum for Social Economics, Vol. 31, No. 2, Spring, 2002.
Forstater, Mathew. “Full Employment Policies Must Consider Effective Demand and Structural and Technological Change,” in A Post Keynesian Perspective on Twenty-First Century Economic Problems,Paul Davidson (ed.), Edward Elgar, 2002.
Forstater, Mathew. Commitment to Full Employment, (with Sumner M. Rosen and Aaron Warner) White Plains, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 2000.
Forstater, Mathew. “Full Employment and Economic Flexibility” in Carlson, Ellen and William F. Mitchell (eds.:) The Path to Full Employment and Equity. Economic and Labour Relations Review, 2000.
Forstater, Mathew. “Savings-Recycling Public Employment: An Assets-Based Approach to Full Employment and Price Stability,” Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, 22 (Spring 2000): 437-450.
Forstater, Mathew. “Institutionalist Approaches to Full Employment Policies,” Journal of Economic Issues, 32 (December 1998): 1135-1139.
Forstater, Mathew. “Flexible Full Employment: Structural Implications of Discretionary Public Sector Employment,” Journal of Economic Issues, 32 (June 1998): 557-564.
Harvey, Philip. “Combating Joblessness: An Analysis of the Principal Strategies that Have Influenced the Development of American Employment and Social Welfare Law during the 20th Century,” Berkeley Journal of Employment & Labor Law, 21 (September 2000).
Kaboub, Fadhel. “Employment Guarantee Programs: A Survey of Theories and Policy Experiences,” Working Paper 498, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY: The Levy Economics Institute (May 2007).
King, Martin Luther. “Where Do We Go From Here? (Transcript)” Transcript of speech delivered on August 16, 1967.
Kostzer, Daniel. “Argentina: A Case Study on the Plan Jefes y Jefas de Hogar Desocupados, or the Employment Road to Economic Recovery,” Working Paper No. 534, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY: The Levy Economics Institute (May 2008).
Tcherneva, Pavlina and L. Randall Wray. “Employer of Last Resort Program: A Case Study of Argentina’s Jefes de Hogar Program,” Working Paper No. 41, Center for Full Employment and Price Stability, Kansas City, MO: UMKC (April 2005)
