The enemies of employment. Unemployment, fatality or necessity? New edition.

Summary Revised and updated by the authors, this book sheds new light on how the labor market works, how to think about unemployment, and the policies to combat it. No, unemployment is not an inevitability linked to globalization and financial capitalism. No, a good salary is not always the enemy of employment. No, legislation on layoffs does not protect employment. No, training is not the remedy for all the ills of the unemployed. This is what the most recent research conducted in France and in many other countries has taught us. We have not "tried everything" to fight unemployment. Far from it. This book tracks down the enemies of employment and tells us how to bring them down. When it was first published in 2004, under the title Le Chômage, fatalité ou nécessité, the book received unanimous critical acclaim and was awarded the Prix Mutations et Travail, the Prix Européen du Livre d'Economie, the Manpower Prize for Human Resources Books in 2005, and the Zerilli-Marimo Prize of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques in 2006.