Who Loses from Unemployment

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Darity, William A., Jr. (1999). Who Loses from Unemployment. Journal of Economic Issues, 33(2), 491-496.

Abstract

It is both useful and tantalizingly disruptive to reconsider unemployment from the standpoint of Karl Marx's mid-1860s construction categories of surplus population under capitalist accumulation. Marx (1967, 641) refers first to the floating surplus or the cyclically unemployed, who also are subject to a secular reduction in their relative importance due to the nature of technical change under capitalism...

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https://doi.org/10.1080/00213624.1999.11506182

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Journal Article

Year Published

1999

Journal Title

Journal of Economic Issues

Author(s)

Darity, William A., Jr.