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Neither unemployment nor benefits
12/12/07
Work: a necessity, a duty... an impossibility. Jules Gazon, professor emeritus at the University of Liège, proposes a model in his latest piece of work (1) where an employment contract is offered to everyone. But this right to work involves the necessity of adhering to a productive society, where work results from an ethical choice, and where aid for inactivity no longer has any reason to exist. Something to stir up the generally accepted ideas…
| The model the researcher proposes in his latest work is indeed daring. Renowned
for combining theory and top-level industrial experience, our economist
reveals in this book a global system aimed at completely eradicating
unemployment. And as its title indicates, he proposes a vision that
envisages the right to work and the duty to work, from the moment the
right to work is ensured, “for everyone who is of working age and in good physical and psychological health”,
as he of course points out. He develops his theory in three phases. The
first part supports his concrete proposals (cf. third part of the
work), including the necessary ethical choice (second part) of a
society with no unemployment. As Jules Gazon indeed insists: “although
an economic problem, unemployment today also falls under the scope of
ethics, which should come as no surprise since the object of the
employment market is the human being and not a good, as is the case in
other markets”. |
(1) Ni chômage, ni assistance. Du choix éthique à la faisabilité économique.,
Paris, L'Harmattan,
Collection : "Questions contemporaines", 2007.
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