Unemployment: Past and Present Edited by Philip Arestis and John McCombie palgrave macmillan Contents List of Tables and Figures vii Acknowledgements x Notes on the Contributors ...

Introduction -- The threat of increasing supply price -- Coping with the threat -- The reserve army of labour in the periphery -- Capitalism, poverty and inequality -- Further elaborations and clarifications -- Metropolitan demand on tropical land mass: the empirical picture -- The international...