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Show A Blueprint For Post-War Employment in America Dr. Arthur L. Beeleyl Author's Note: The claim to originality in the accompanying· proposal arises out of (a) the overall conception of the problem, (b) the emphasis upon joint responsibility, and (c) the federal state administrative structure for its planning and administration. .... I. The Goals to be Reached. II. Assumptions and Basic Principles. Employment Plans. III. IV. Educational Plans. V. The Administrative Structure. VI., Appendix: Sources of Data, etc. 1. The Goals to be Reached: The aim is to provide all able". bodied men and women (a) honorably discharged from the armed forces, (b) released from defense industries, and (c) all others who are employable, with 1. 2. self respecting remunerative employment, national minimum standard of living, or .... sustaining a education and training which will ensure their ultimate absorption into the normal channels of American eco .... nomic and social life. II. Assumptions smd Basic Principles: Whatever is planned should be undertaken within the general framework of our own political system, and aimed toward what has been aptly called "The American Dream." Specifically, 1. There must be joint responsibility on the part of the public and private institutions, with the public agencies taking the initiative until such time as the agencies of private enterprise can resume their normal and rightful place in the American economic system, a system of so cialized capitalism in which the principle of production and consumption for private profit is curbed only by the correlative principle of production and consumption for the public welfare. .... 2. In this cooperative endeavor, it must be assumed that economic rivalry, class conflict, and racial differences will be subordinated to the com political partisanship, .... mon 3. good. The prodigious cost of the undertaking must be regarded, from the outset, as the continuing cost of the' war and 'Dean, School of Social Work, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. Volume 21, Proceedings of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 43 . |
