Politics and Jobs The Boundaries of Employment Policy in the United States [Paperback]

Americans claim a strong attachment to the work ethic and regularly profess support for government policies to promote employment. Why, then, have employment policies gained only a tenuous foothold in the United States? To answer this question, Margaret Weir highlights two related elements: the power of ideas in policymaking and the politics of interest formation.

Margaret Weiris a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. With Ira Katznelson, she is the coauthor ofSchooling for All: Class, Race and the Decline of the Democratic Ideal(Basic Books/University of California). Politics and Jobsestablishes a new landmark in the study of economic and social policies in the United States. Weir's insightful and analytically powerful book will be widely read and cited for years. William Julius Wilson, University of Chicago