UIF - A battle for benefits

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Title
UIF - A battle for benefits
Creator
Date
1985
Description
Unemployment has always been and still is a tricky problem for capitalists. On the one hand lots of unemployed workers make it easier for employers to keep wages low. But if there are too many unemployed workers then they might support moves for immediate and fundamental change in the society. Employers and the governments of capitalist countries have tried to solve this in different ways and at different times. But in most countries some income has been given to the unemployed for part of the time they have been without jobs. They have usually done this by providing some kind of benefits paid to the unemployed for a certain limited period of time. 1 lie fund from which these benefits are paid is usually controlled and administered by the government. However, there are many different ways that these benefits can lie financed. Before looking at what happened here in South Africa let us look at the problem of unemployment benefits generally in a capitalist state.
Subject
Format
pdf
Language
English
Type
text
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155613
Archive
Cory Library for Humanitites Research
Provenance
The item is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research, Rhodes University, on behalf of the Labour Research Service
Extent
28 pages
Rights
Federation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU)
Rights Holder
Federation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU)
Use/re-use
The materials are made available explicitly for research and educational purposes. Any use of these materials must be cleared with the Labour Research Service.
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