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Labor Market Policy in the United States: The Neoliberal Regime - Margaret Weir, Politics and Jobs: The Politics of Employment Policy in the United States (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. Pp. xviii, 238. $24.95). - Gary Mucciaroni, The Political Failure of Employment Policy, 1945–1982 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1990. Pp. xii, 317. $17.95 paper). - Udo Sautter, Three Cheers for the Unemployed: Government and Unemployment Before the New Deal (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xiii, 402. $54.95). - Thomas Janoski, The Political Economy of Unemployment: Active Labor Market Policy in West Germany and the United States (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1990. Pp. xxvi, 345. $39.95).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2011

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1. For this distinction, see King, Desmond, “The Conservatives and Training Policy, 1979–1992: From a Tripartite to a Neoliberal Regime,Political Studies 41 (1993):228–47CrossRefGoogle Scholar, and Robertson, D. B., “Mrs. Thatcher's Employment Prescription: An Active Neo-Liberal Labor Market Policy,Journal of Public Policy 6 (1986): 275–96CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2. Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Official File 1086, Folder: Committee on Economic Security, 1935–40. Committee on Economic Security, “Report to the President,” January 1935, 7–8.

3. See King, Desmond, “The Establishment of Work-Welfare Programs in the United States and Britain: Politics, Ideas, and Institutions,” in Steinmo, S. et al. , eds., Structuring Politics: Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Analysis (New York, 1992)Google Scholar.