e-Conference on the
GLOBAL EMPLOYMENT CHALLENGE
An inquiry into the root causes and remedy for the problem of unemployment
This e-conference will utilize a variety of methods to explore creative solutions to the problem of global employment, including presentations, panel discussions, webcasts and open forums.
Announcing the opening of GEC Session 2: The Goal of Full Employment
1. Is Full Employment a realistic and achievable goal?
This is the question that plagues and undermines the aspirations of youth, the dreams of an aging workforce, the will of policy-makers, the visions of futurists and the quest of economists for an ideal economic system. It expresses in a countless variety of questions that touch upon the essential nature of social reality.
2. Potential for Full Employment
- Is it theoretically conceivable and practically feasible to formulate a strategy that can eradicate the problem of unemployment globally within a 10 year time-frame?
- What social trends will enhance the prospects for achieving full employment in the future?
- How is the problem of unemployment related to the structure of society and is it within our capacity to change that structure?
- Philosophically, it is said that every problem created by human beings can be solved by human initiative. This principle is often described as the essence of the American spirit, responsible for its rise to global pre-eminence. Is this principle relevant to the issue of unemployment nationally and globally?
- It has been said that problems come to us for our progress. Is there truth in that statement with respect to the global employment challenge? If so, what is the progress humanity needs to make?
3. Obstacles to Full Employment
- What social trends will diminish the prospects for achieving full employment in the future?
- Is full employment compatible with mass production and other technological advances under the current global economic system?
- Is our social system governed by impersonal and intractable economics laws that dominate and compel us to submit or is it the creation of human beings who have the capacity to change what they have created?
- Why is the collective will of humanity apparently incapable of addressing an issue so central to the future well-being of our race?
4. Historical Perspective on Employment
- When did the problem of unemployment first arise and what conditions pertained before that time?
- Is there any historical precedent for believing in the feasibility of full employment?
- Have their been societies or periods in which unemployment was absent? If so, under what prevailing conditions? Are those conditions or the essence of those conditions applicable now?
- Are there any positive insights regarding a solution to unemployment that can be derived from the communist/socialist experiments of the 20th Century that are applicable to addressing the issue in future?
GEC Session 2 is intended to explore these questions to arrive at a theoretical and practical understanding of the potential for achieving full employment.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The GEC invites participants to submit papers for the seminar topics listed below:
1. The Right to Employment
2. The Goal of Full Employment
3. Youth Employment
4. Strategies for Employment Generation
5. Employment Challenges & Opportunities in Developing Countries
6. Employment Challenges & Opportunities in OECD Countries
7. Best Practices for Employment Generation
8. The Internet and Employment
9. Society, Social Structure & Employment
10. Population, Aging, the Counter-Aging Society and Employment
11. Entrepreneurship, Employment & Self-Employment
12. Education, Training and Employment
13. Immigration & Outsourcing of Employment in a Global Economy
14. Women & Employment
15. Global Governance & Employment
16. Psychological Dimensions of Employment
17. The Future of Work
18. Employment, Unemployment, Social Stability and Social Unrest
For more information on these topics see GEC Questions & Topics
Please send papers to gecteam@worldacademy.org
If you are responding to a specific question under this topic, please include the number of the subquestion in the subject of your message.
e.g. Subject: 2b Supportive social trends
This way people can respond to the general question or file their views on any of the four specific questions or even on specific subquestions.
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