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10 1/2 x 10 290 color and 200 black-and-white illustrations US and Canada Distribution architecture Minimalism is defined as "the quality an object has when every component, every detail and every junction has been condensed to its essentials." Minimalist Spaces is a fascinating journey through minimalist architecture and interiors. This amazing guide features over 30 of the best examples of this architectural style from buildings all over the world, including overviews of such projects as the Na Xamena House, Spain; a Minimalist apartment in the U.K.; the offices of Bang & Olufsen in Denmark; the Antonio Pernas Boutique in Spain; a minimalist jewelry shop in Munich; and much more. Conveniently organized into three chapters-homes; offices and public buildings; and shopping spaces-this guide also includes dozens of sophisticated photos, as well as introductions written by John Pawson and Claudio Silverstrin, two important contemporary leaders of this extraordinary movement.
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Nice, but no need to buy........2004-04-15
Firstly, I love minimalism. The two quotes at the beginning of this book sum up what is wonderful about minimalism rather nicely, and I encourage you to read them (at the book store). Secondly, some of the exibits in this book are really fantastic, especially the Japanese projects. I found a lot of inspiration looking at these designs, and the photography is mostly great.
BUT, you really don't need to buy this particular book. I suggest Minimalist Houses over this particular collection because it has a lot more variety, and greater international representation (eg. you'll see more from Germany, Sweedan, the U.S. and Japan) for about the same price. Minimalist Spaces is a nice book, but read it the store as an appetizer for Minimalist Houses, if minimalism appeals to you. Some people are uncomfortable with minimalism, and there are plenty of books and designs for you too :).
Good Selection.......2001-06-12
The materials in Minimalist Spaces are thoughtfully selected from broad range around the world. With its good quality graphics, it's a book worthy to read. If more specific details and graphic illustrations could be included, it would be much more helpful. Anyway, this is a good book of its kind.
Book Description
• Big ideas? Little time? Take this photography course in a book!
• Accessible, assignment-led approach to creating great nudes
• Teaches digital basics and much more
Practical assignments and a clear, step-by-step approach make Digital Photography Workshops: Nudes the essential course-between-covers for any photographer who has big dreams and little time to accomplish them. Nudes guides readers through all the stages of taking a great nude, from working with people, to setting up flattering lighting, to ideas for poses and stunning compositions, styles of imagery, and creating mood with the camera. Each step is presented with easy-to-follow assignments, how-to tips, digital basics, and complete image-editing projects. Core skills are taught as part of the process of learning to photograph nudes, so the photographer can learn the basics while working toward taking professional-quality shots in the specialty.
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Educational.......2007-06-14
This book is full of great tips for beginners. I highly recommend it.
The Book Delivers.......2007-06-11
I liked the instructional/assignment approach. Although already an accomplished fine art nude photographer, I like the stimulation provided by the author to attempt new approaches to a familiar subject.
Average customer rating:
- Great General Nude Photography Review
- Don't expect to learn alot, OK for insite.
- One-Star for Amateurs like Me !
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The Nude: Creative Photography Workshop
Bruce Pinkard
Manufacturer: Sterling
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ASIN: 188340360X |
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Advice on every aspect of nude photography will enable you to reveal the sensual curves, contours, and symmetry of the female form, whether your goal is purely artistic or frankly erotic. A veritable bounty of striking pictures and a wealth of professional guidance is sure to give you a strong understanding of key skills and provide the creative spark that will set your imagination in motion. Once you know what to look for in a model, you'll need to master a variety of challenges for different locations. Use water, filters, lenses, perspective, and props to enhance your model under the sun. Indoors, pay attention to composition and design, lighting, shadows, and mood. For studio assignments, see how to give a model direction and how to work with white, colored, and black backgrounds. Plus, employ special effects like diffusion and catch up on the latest in digital imagery. 192 pages, 76 color illus., 207 b/w illus., 10 x 10.
Customer Reviews:
Great General Nude Photography Review.......2002-12-26
I thought that this was a great general review of doing nude photography. I wouldn't pay full price but used ...is a good deal and was just what I needed.
Don't expect to learn alot, OK for insite........1999-11-14
This book, to me, gave a lot of insite into the authors outlooks but lacked presenting things in a manner that it could be used as a learning and reference tool. I personally bought it because it said "Course". I don't feel it lives up to that.
I often disagree with reviewers on movies and books, but if you have limited funds try something else. John Hedgecoe's Figure and Form Photographing the Nude is an excellant book, and cheaper!
One-Star for Amateurs like Me !.......1999-10-28
The text gave lots of detailed and esoteric information. Unfortunately I am very amateur and was looking for simple ideas on settings and poses for a special weekend. May be good for the more professional or experienced.
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- Don't bother
- selling soap
- selling soap
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- A Good Start
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Nude & Beauty Photography: Kodak Pro Workshop Series
Nancy Brown
Manufacturer: Silver Pixel
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Complete Guide to Beauty & Glamor Photography
ASIN: 0879857749 |
Book Description
What does it take to get a great nude photograph--to choose the right model, make her feel comfortable, style her to best effect, and place her in eye-catching compositions? A top photographer, a former model herself, reveals all the details of what goes on in her studio and how she plans and carries out a shoot. Using an array of nude photographs and a personal, chatty style, Brown explains how she selects and directs her models, emphasizing that while physical imperfections can be disguised (she'll tell you how) nothing hides a lack of personality--and that makes for a dead photo. Find out what to do when faced with someone inexperienced, nervous about going nude, or chosen by a client who doesn't share your taste. Take advantage of expert and very practical advice on where to find staff, what to do when things are going wrong and you must get the shot, and how to achieve a subtle eroticism with drapery or through a model's glance. Plus: Brown's favorite model gives her perspective, too!
Customer Reviews:
Don't bother.......2002-07-25
This book is a complete waste of time and money for anyone looking for information or images on glamour photography. Very little substance of use. I own approximately 15 books in the area of glamour photography and have read and studied them all. I use them to develop my technical abiliy and creative vision. The 3 best buys I've found for content are "Successful Glamour Photography" by John Kelly, "Part-Time Glamour Photography Full-Time Income" by Joe Farace and "Lighting For Glamour Photography" by David Kimber. These 3 books cover most aspects of glamour photography from the technical to finding models and selling your photographs. Hope this helps those of you looking for more detailed information on the subject of glamour photography.
selling soap.......2002-01-14
You wont find any great secrets to photographing the nude in this book. The author seems more concerned on ways of covering the nude than photographing it. Photographic examples are glib and fomulatic looking. Photographs are composed and lighted for soap and skin care product ads that would be aimed at the female consummer and won't offend granma.
selling soap.......2002-01-14
You wont find any great secrets to photographing the nude in this book. The author seems more concerned on ways of covering the nude than photographing it. Photographic examples are glib and fomulatic looking. Photographs are composed and lighted for soap and skin care product ads that would be aimed at the female consummer and won't offend granma.
Feeling let down.......2001-04-13
A number of years ago I thoroughly enjoyed Nancy Brown's book on Advertising Photography and so I ordered her book on Nude Photography sight unseen. I was very disappointed. This book gives very few details on what is a very complicated subject and also manages to give too much information on some very obvious points. I was also disappointed with the photographs. A lot of them were the same in pose and lighting and, although I do understand that the author is doing a series of non-nude photographs with capes, those photos do not belong in this book. The lighting diagrams give very little information and the size of those diagrams and the size of the some of the print take up an inordinate amount of the pages. This book is a very quick read with little information. Had this been an article in a photography magazine I would not be complaining so loudly. For the price of this book however, I feel that the author has let us down.
A Good Start.......2001-03-10
I first noticed this book at a photo store. After a few minutes browsing I thought it looked interesting. However after buying it I found there was little more to it than what I had picked up in a quick browse. There are some interesting perspectives on working with models. There are also a few technical hints, and some advice on breaking in the business. But I thought none of the topics was covered in sufficient depth to be useful. It's a good start to a book that needs to either focus topics or expand greatly to be useful.
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Through the eyes of one man.......2005-10-04
This was an incredible time for this photographer, and for the last few decades of 20th century fine art photography. This is not something for the prude; this is for those who have a healthy admiration for the human physique in art; the physique as what it truly is, a Godly creation, seen through the eyes of the photographer Lucien Clergue.
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Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Nude Mice
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The Queer Men's Erotic Art Workshop: Dirty Little Drawings
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All My Boys
ASIN: 3861874482 |
Book Description
A visual experiment by a number of New York artists - intoxicating!
New York City six years ago - a small group of fourteen young restless gay artists joined forces. Frustrated that the drawing courses on offer only had nude models in academic poses they decide to take matters into their own hands. Thus the QUEER MEN'S EROTIC ART WORKSHOP was born! In the following years the group expanded to almost 100 gay artists and their collaboration proved to be quite fruitful. Together they produced around 12,000 drawings - DIRTY LITTLE DRAWINGS.
This anthology is the outstanding result of this inspiring project. It is also a fascinating glimpse into New York's gay subculture on an impressive 320 pages. It's a very revealing book full of sexual tension and is a lovely slice of gay emancipation! This book will defi nitely make quite a splash!
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Portfoolio 18: The Year's Best Canadian Editorial Cartoons
Guy Badeaux
Manufacturer: McClelland & Stewart
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ASIN: 0771010575
Release Date: 2002-11-05 |
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What’s the connection between the war in Afghanistan and the break-up of the Alliance? Between the death of Peter Gzowski and the passing of the Queen Mum? Mike Harris bowing out and Gordon Campbell wading in? The Enron bust and the Liberal cabinet shuffle? Mel Lastman’s Hell’s Angel handshake and the Olympic figure skating scandal? They were all deserving targets of Canada’s top editorial cartoonists.
From the celebrated (Aislin, Corrigan, Gable, Raeside) to the unheralded, Portfoolio 18 offers a 12-month round-up of the funniest, the smartest, the most wicked cartoons published in 2001/2002.
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Direccion Financiera Del Riesgo De Interes (Economia Y Empresa)
Maria P. Portillo Tarragona
Manufacturer: Piramide
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Diccionario de Mercados Financieros - 2b: Edicion
Jose Heras
Manufacturer: Gestion 2000
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- 2003 Photographer's Market
- More info than you'll ever use
- What would we do without it?
- Excellent
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2003 Photographer's Market (Photographer's Market, 2003)
Manufacturer: Writer's Digest Books
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ASIN: 1582971218 |
Book Description
Every listing 100% updated
You have photos to sell and 2003 Photographer's Market has the buyers who want them.
Inside you'll find more than 2,000 completely updated market listings with contact information for magazines, stock agencies, advertising firms, book publishers, greeting card and poster markets, newspapers, businesses, galleries and more, including 450 all-new listings.
Each entry provides contact names, addresses, phone numbers, emails and Web sites, plus detailed information on what each markets pays, preferred submission formats, what they're looking for, how much them buy, and more. Easy-to-reference symbols and indexes get you to the most promising markets for your work FAST.
You'll also find an invaluable selection of helpful articles and Insider Reports: * "Getting Down to Business" details everything you need to know to start selling your photographs, from submitting images to determining fees * Learn how to make the switch from film to digital-do you know the costs vs. the benefits? * Photo rep Maria Piscopo tells you how to select the best images for your self-promotion pieces * Photo rep Leslie Burns details everything you should know about usage, day rates, and negotiating with clients-discover the true value of the images you create! * Gerard Fritz, owner of the stock agency Novastack, commercial photographer David Spielman, Hal Gould, owner/director of the Camera Obscura Gallery, and Susan McElhinney, photo editor for Ranger Rick, provide an insider's view of the photography business
2003 Photographer's Market also provides information on contests, workshops, professional organizations, portfolio review events, Web sites and more, making it the only reference you need to get your work in print and on display.
Customer Reviews:
2003 Photographer's Market.......2003-06-06
Having read the other reviews I was probably expecting a bit too much. I admit there is a whole heap of information here, but wading through it is headache inducing. One thing I really hate is the way the subject index just throws everything together: magazines, stock agencies, greetings card companies etc. After a few minutes your brain starts to spin. Surely subdividing the subject index would be more helpful.
Another complaint is that there are no big national newspapers listed. The 'Newspapers and Newsletters' section is truly pathetic, covering every obscure backwater newsletter, but nothing substantial apart from one entry: New York Times Magazine. The British BFP Market Handbook lists all the national newspapers, so why are there none here?
Finally, it seems if publications or organisations do not reply to a listing request, they are deleted. Wouldn't it be better to still include their info with a symbol indicating that it might be out of date material? For instance, you do not list the National Enquirer, but this has earnt freelances a lot of money over the years. It may not be serious journalism but it is a good market.
More info than you'll ever use.......2003-05-06
This book is very exhaustive on places to sell photos. It is almost overwhelming trying to find places to send photos too. If you can't find a place to sell photos in here than you'll never be able to sell or post photos.
What would we do without it?.......2002-09-07
A must for editorial and/or stock photographers. A bible of contact information. A few photo buyers, like those who only buy one or two photos from freelancers a year, could be left out of the book.
Excellent.......2001-10-01
If you want to sell or exhibit photos, this book will give you all the information on places to go that you will need.
Read it Cover to Cover.......2001-09-01
Okay, this is not the type of book one should read cover to cover but I did it anyway. As a young photographer taking baby steps to a new career this book has been invaluable.
Not only does it instill me with the confidence that there is a market for the type of photography I produce, but it gives the contact information I need an the instructions on how to make contact with each photobuyer. The scattered articles also help in pointing the direction for further research into the business aspect of photography.
I will most defiantly make this a yearly purchase! So I will always have the most up to date information on who buys what, when, how, and for how much.
-Christopher Bergeron
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2003 Photographer's Market
Manufacturer: Writer's Digest Books
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With These Hands documents the farm labor system through the presentation of a collection of voices--workers who labor in the fields, growers who manage the multi-billion dollar agricultural industry, contractors who link workers with growers, coyotes who smuggle people across the border, union organizers, lobbyists, physicians, workers' families in Mexico, farmworker children and others. The diversity of stories presents the world of migrant farmworkers as a complex social and economic system, a network of intertwined lives, showing how all Americans are bound to the struggles and contributions of our nation's farm laborers.
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I couldn't put this book down.......2005-11-21
I'm not sure how I even came across this book but what a wonderful find. This book illustrates the complex relationship among the farmworkers, growers, contractors, unionists, advocates, lobbyists, etc. It was extremely well written and readable, alternating between background information/statistics and first person narratives. I also liked the photographs (which were not of the same people who spoke in the book) but would have liked informative captions to go along with them. I am astounded by the enormity of this industry and the agricultural power of the USA. I would certainly pay more for my produce if it would help improve the farmworkers' situation (although the book clearly states that consumer price has little to do with these conditions). I can no longer look at fruits and vegetables the same way.
Positve depiction on the contents of the book........1999-05-06
Read This Book! The book With These Hands, is a very accurate depiction of migrant farmworks today. The author, Daniel Rothenberg, is an anthropologist that spent three years living among workers and getting to know the people who work in the labor camps. He compiled more than 250 interviews to try and gain insight on the numerous hardships that these people face. Many people only hear about migrant workers who get into run-ins with the law, therefore giving these people a stereotypical view of how many of these migrants actually are, and what they go through to make such horrible wages. Every aspect of these farmworkers lives are explored, from wages to the farm labor market to consequences of labor practices. This book is really a reality check to people because of how much these workers have an affect on our lives. People don't stop to think about how all of their fruit products are gathered and how the workers are treated for doing such back breaking work. This book differs from many others that have been written on this same topic because it covers all different angles of migrant farmwork for yesterday and today. A definite two thumbs up!
This is a fine, very readable book about migrant farmworkers.......1999-04-30
With These Hands is an excellent book that contains oral histories -- astonishing interviews -- with farmworkers, growers, labor contractors, government officials and labor union officials. These statements are interspersed with excellent but brief summaries of various issues. The full range of the complexity of farmworkers' lives is explored, from wages and benefits to the structure of the farm labor market to the international consequences of agricultural labor practices. As a lawyer for migrant farmworkers, I'm all for books about them but have been disappointed by a lot of what has been written. This book does not disappoint.
Everyone who eats should read this book........1999-01-23
"The Poorest of the Invisible Working Poor" could be an alternate title for Daniel Rothenberg's "With These Hands." Most of us know migrant farm workers only when one of them breaks the law and get written up in the newspaper. However, just about every piece of produce we routinely select at the supermarket has passed through their hands. I particularly liked the format of Rothenberg's book, alternating factual explanation with monologues by those involved in farm labor. I appreciated the wide variety of viewpoints exposed, not just those of migrant workers, but also of contractors, farmer employers, government officials and labor organizers. Most migrant farmworkers are Hispanic, many of them in this country legally, and some are U.S. citizens from years back. Many others, out of economic desperation, risk their lives sneaking across the U.S./Mexican border to find honest work doing the most backbreaking labor, under the most inhumane living conditions, for the most miserable wages. Their sheer numbers help keep farmworker wages low, but the power of the agricultural lobby has helped maintain the dismal conditions of farm labor since the Depression. Everyone who eats should read this book. Every politician should read it twice.
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This digital document is a journal article from Review of Economic Dynamics, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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In this paper, I consider the problem of optimal unemployment insurance in a world in which the unemployed agent's job-finding effort is unobservable and his level of savings is unobservable. I show that the first-order approach is not always valid for this problem, and I argue that the available recursive procedures are not currently computationally feasible. Nonetheless, for the case in which the disutility of effort is linear, I am able to provide a complete characterization of the optimal contract: the agent's consumption is constant while he is unemployed, and jumps up to a higher constant and history-independent level of consumption when he finds a job.
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- The massive hidden unemployment/wealth redistribution crisis
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Hidden Unemployment: Discouraged Workers and Public Policy
Terry F. Buss , and
F. Stevens Redburn
Manufacturer: Praeger Publishers
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ASIN: 0275926125 |
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This timely and important work addresses the controversy surrounding discouragement among the unemployed. Using an unprecedented set of national and local studies, and drawing on disparate research in nearly every social science discipline, the authors produce an original, highly detailed portrait of discouraged workers. From their analysis they offer recommendations on what can be done to promote employment and reduce long-term dependency on government assistance. Other timely issues discussed are chronic minority unemployment, worker dislocation through plant closings, the impact of low wage jobs on reducing poverty, the "feminization of poverty," the plight of the working poor, and the importance of the family.
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The massive hidden unemployment/wealth redistribution crisis.......2004-01-04
This was the book that first seriously challenged the accuracy of U.S. Government unemployment figures in the modern era. The authors demonstrated that there are a large number of "uncounted" unemployed workers in American society. Indeed, the true unemployment figures may easily be double the official figures- or higher. The main difficulty lies in the fact that the government simply doesn't count anyone as "unemployed" who has either run out his allotted unemployment benefits, or did not officially qualify in the first place due to gaping loopholes in the system.
The authors also examined the huge number of underemployed people who qualify as "employed" but who are barely earning a subsistence living (usually after losing much higher paying manufacturing jobs.) The actual standard of living of those forced off of the welfare roles and into marginal, low paying employment (often short lived) was similarly covered. The related phenomenon of the "feminization" of unemployment is identified and examined. Moreover, the idea that older workers were voluntarily leaving the workforce (instead of being forced out due to age discrimination) was also debunked.
Anyone interested in, or outraged by, the massive redistribution of wealth in U.S. society over the last two decades, along with political efforts to cover up the fact, will find this study an excellent starting point. It would seem that neither major party really wants the peonization of American society to be closely and objectively examined or addressed.
Table of Contents
-- Background
-- The Discouraged Worker Problem
-- The Existing Knowledge Base
-- Toward a New Perspective
-- Paths to Discouragement
-- Profiles in Discouragement
-- Coping Without Work
-- Viewing Life and Work
-- Seeking Work
-- Public Policy
-- What Are Their Needs?
-- How Should They Be Helped?
-- Bibliography
-- Index
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A Hidden Workforce: Homeworkers in England, 1850-1985 (Women in Society)
Shelley Pennington , and
Belinda Westover
Manufacturer: New York University Press
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ASIN: 0814766099 |
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This digital document is an article from Cuadernos de Economía: Latin American journal of economics, published by Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Instituto de Economia on December 1, 2003. The length of the article is 3961 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Long-term disability insurance in the Netherlands: a problem of hidden unemployment.
Author: Damien De Walque
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Cuadernos de Economía: Latin American journal of economics (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2003
Publisher: Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Instituto de Economia
Volume: 40
Issue: 121
Page: 485(10)
Distributed by Thomson Gale
Product Description
This book does not take a neutral stand on the issue of mass unemployment. It is an effort to expose capitalism's most outrageous feature - its compulsive need to use unemployment and the fear of unemployment to ensure the docility and subservience of its workers. Under the capitalist system, the stick of the fear of unemployment is necessary to keep workers' noses to the grindstone and make them perform to the satisfaction of their employers. The stick is needed because much work is boring, the carrot paid is less than a living wage, provides workers very little or no control over the work process, and stifles creativity - in short because the total carrot offered to numerous workers is so woefully inadequate. Under a different system, one in which working people participated fully in the decisions affecting what, how and for what purpose goods and services were produced; if we had a system based on economic democracy, there would be no need to use the stick of the fear of unemployment. The creativity of most of the millions of working people, now mostly dormant, would be awakened and the volume and quality of improvements and inventions especially in housing, energy, transit systems and health care would be so great as to tower high above and completely overshadow the number and purpose of the innovations created under the present system.
The issue of unemployment is shrouded in half-truths and outright lies. As a result, there is almost total ignorance about the real causes of unemployment and worse still, about its very serious consequences. Many claim that there are enough jobs but that the unemployed are lazy and would rather be on welfare. While this may be true of a very small fraction of the unemployed, it is not true of the overwhelming majority. There have been numerous instances in which whenever advertisements calling for applicants for relatively well-paid jobs or for jobs that paid better than the minimum wage, the number of applicants that applied for those jobs were ten or more times greater than the number of jobs that were advertised.
In September 26th of 1984, to mention just one instance, the Associated Press News Agency reported that "50,000 people lined up for 350 jobs." The report went on to say that "the applicants, some of whom waited in line for two days, hope to land a longshoreman's job paying $15.45 an hour or a marine clerk's job earning $17.45 an hour... However the fact that only 350 jobs are currently available didn't dismay the crowd, which queued up in a line in the San Pedro district [of Los Angeles] that stretched for 13 mile..."
Clearly, the majority would rather have gainful employment at a living wage and live a life of dignity and integrity. Furthermore apart from the simple need to earn a living, productive employment is an indispensable part of the psychological makeup of human beings. Simply put, people want to feel useful. Prolonged joblessness is a serious threat to a person's self-esteem and destroying that self-esteem has appalling consequences.
The ugly truth is that the system under which we live will not or cannot provide jobs for those who need them. The business class is simply not interested in full employment because mass unemployment provides them with many benefits. Among those benefits: a large pool of unemployed workers drives down the wages employers have to pay.
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