This paper considers public employment guarantee programs in the context of South Africa as a means to address the nexus of poverty, unemployment, and unpaid work burdens - all factors exacerbated by HIV/AIDS. It further discusses the need for gender-informed public job creation in areas that...

To mobilize Greece's severely underemployed labor potential and confront the social and economic dangers of persistent unemployment, we propose the immediate implementation of a direct public benefit job creation program - a Greek "New Deal." The Job Guarantee (JG) program would offer the...

This paper considers public employment guarantee programs in the context of South Africa as a means to address the nexus of poverty, unemployment, and unpaid work burdensall factors exacerbated by HIV/AIDS. It further discusses the need for genderinformed public job creation in areas that...

1. Introduction to the book / Rania Antonopoulos -- 2. Financial crisis and their gendered employment impact : emerging trends and past experiences / Jayati Ghosh -- 3. Investing in care in the midst of a crisis : a strategy for effective and equitable job creation in the United States / Rania...