Publisher's Synopsis
Employment has been adopted as a leading concern for the United Nations World Social Summit in March 1995. This important study, prepared for the Summit by the World Institute for Development Economics Research, comprises a wide-ranging set of investigations of the rapidly changing situation in the North, the new market economies of Eastern Europe and the increasingly heterogeneous economies of the South. Economists and other social scientists explore what the complex tendencies in the global economy mean for the changing nature of work and rising levels of joblessness, and the issues and policies being thrown up in response to new structural trends. A second volume of case studies is scheduled for later in 1995.
