Review of Citizenship and Employment: Investigating Post-Industrial Options. Jocelyn Pixley. Reviewed by James Midgley, Louisiana State University.

Authors

James Midgley, Louisiana State University

Abstract

Jocelyn Pixley's book uses the concept of social citizenship to examine the issue of structural unemployment in post-industrial societies. She is not entirely sympathetic to Marshall's conceptual schema, but she recognizes its significance as an organizing concept when writing about chronic unemployment. Pixley challenges the view that the separation of income from work offers a solution to chronic unemployment and that the destruction of the work/cash nexus offers a liberating alternative to the drudgery of daily work. She is emphatic in her claim that citizenship can only be meaningful in capitalist societies when people have access to secure and renumerative jobs.

Recommended Citation

Midgley, James (1994) "Review of Citizenship and Employment: Investigating Post-Industrial Options. Jocelyn Pixley. Reviewed by James Midgley, Louisiana State University.," The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare: Vol. 21: Iss. 1, Article 16.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15453/0191-5096.2118
Available at: https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/jssw/vol21/iss1/16