JOB WHEN WAR ENDS
Kasper, Sydney H.
Jobs When War Ends PROVIDING FOR UNEMPLOYED WORKERS IN THE TRANSITION, by Richard A. Lester. A Committee for Economic Development Research Study. McGraw-Hill. $1.50. Reviewed by Sydney H....
...In addition, he urges that private industry provide for released workers by including dismissal compensation in contract-termination arrangements, by utilization of workers during the reconversion period in such work as maintenance, repairs, alterations, and development activities, and by planning of operations so that workers can be hired in advance against a specified work-commencement date...
...Better yet, he underlines the urgency for action now, before it is too late for anything but haphazard, spur-of-the-moment programs...
...Reviewed by Sydney H. Kasper IF this book has done nothing else, it has made me acutely conscious of the fact that planning for postwar unemployment has consisted mainly of talk, talk, talk...
...Lester recommends a uniform benefit payment for all states, short-term public works with the Federal government providing funds on a matched-grant basis, and a training and education program for the unemployed...
...Lester (at present Associate Professor of Economics, Duke University) has summed up practically every solid argument for an adequate unemployment program during the transition from war to peacetime production, leaving very little more to be said...
Vol. 9 • May 1945 • No. 19
