Pig in the middle: Overcoming inflexibility unemployment |
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Authors: | Michel Godet |
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Institution: | Michel Godet is Associate Professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM), 2 rue Conté, 75003 Paris, and scientific advisor to the Ministry of Industry and Research, France |
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Abstract: | The growth in unemployment is not inevitable. It is the product of an implicit consensus amongst the most powerful social actors, which instead of implementing rules adapted to the new technological and economic era, fight to preserve the old rules from which they continue to draw profit. In the short run, preserving the inflexible attitudes towards work (the single salaried job with full salary) is such that unemployment is bound to increase and social strife will intensify. A more flexible approach to work supply and demand is illustrated by the game ‘pig in the middle’, which, with an equitable distribution of gains in productivity directly related to the implementation of new technology, does not exclude full employment for all. |
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Keywords: | unemployment social change futures studies |
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