TY - JOUR AB - In recent decades, substantial unemployment once again became commonplace enough in most Western industrial nations to erase the optimism that pervaded the early post‐World War II era. That optimism was fueled by a belief that capitalism had solved the problem of unemployment. Full employment was believed to be a permanent feature of Western economies, just as in the 1930s, mass unemployment was often considered a permanent feature of capitalist economies. VL - 11 IS - 1/2/3 SN - 0144-333X DO - 10.1108/eb013124 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb013124 AU - Ginsburg Helen PY - 1991 Y1 - 1991/01/01 TI - CHANGING CONCEPTS OF FULL EMPLOYMENT: DIVERGENT CONCEPTS, DIVERGENT GOALS T2 - International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 18 EP - 28 Y2 - 2024/09/23 ER -