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Between the wars, the response of the British Labour Party and Trades Union Congress to the problem of the unemployed was extremely limited. Committed to gradualist philosophies, the leaders of the labour movement were unwilling to attempt genuine socialist remedies in office, and, in opposition, to provide a militant leadership for the protest movement. The National Unemployed Workers' Movement, begun in 1921 and not finally dissolved until after the outbreak of the Second World War, was the only body which attempted to mobilise unemployed discontent. After 1926, the Labour Party Executive and the General Council of the TUC consistently refused to have any contact with this organisation on the grounds that, like the National Minority Movement and the later Rank-and-File Movement, the NUWM was merely a subsidiary of the British Communist Party. This article is an attempt to show that by a process of induction the Labour leaders branded the unemployed movement as a whole on the basis of the known Communist allegiance of a number of its leaders, and to demonstrate that they allowed themselves to become so sidetracked by the issue of whether or not the NUWM was a Communist front that their own efforts on behalf of the unemployed suffered in consequence.

En este artículo proponemos un modelo analítico que posibilita la aproximación al devenir de las organizaciones de desocupados a partir del proceso movilizatorio que demanda la inclusión al Programa "Argentina Trabaja". Entendemos que esta serie de acciones colectivas constituyen un acontecimiento que modifica la caracterización del devenir de las organizaciones de trabajadores desocupados en la pos-crisis. Argumentamos que este evento se produce durante un ciclo caracterizado por una particular estructura de oportunidades políticas que se abre con la crisis de 2008- 2009 y se cierra con la conmemoración del bicentenario de la Revolución de Mayo. Entendemos que el anuncio de un nuevo programa social puede ser leído como el suceso que precipita el acontecimiento; asimismo consideramos que el telón de fondo sobre el que se inscribe este proceso está configurado por determinadas apropiaciones cognitivas que remiten a una capacidad de acción –que sin embrago no se replica acríticamente- y al status público conseguido a partir de la gestión de los programas de empleo desde hace más de una década. ; In this paper, we propose an analytical model which enables the approach to the development of the unemployed workers organizations a from movilizatorio process that demands entry into Programa "Argentina Trabaja". We understand that this series of collective actions constitutes an occurrence that modifies the characterization of the development of the organizations of unemployed workers during the post-crisis. We argue that this event occurs during a cycle characterized by a particular structure of political opportunities that begins with the 2008-2009 crisis and ends with the commemoration of the May Revolution bicentennial. We understand that the announcement of a new social program may be read as the event that precipitates the occurrence; likewise we consider that the background in which this process registers is configured by particular cognitive appropriations which refer to a capacity of action - nonetheless not uncritically replicated - and to the public status achieved from the management of the employment programs for more than a decade. ; Fil: Maneiro, María. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales. Instituto de Investigaciones "Gino Germani"; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina

In this paper we estimate, for the 1989-93 period in Belgium, the effect of vocational classroom training on the rate of transition from unemployment. We propose a ?control function? estimator accounting for variable treatment effects. In the absence of interaction effects between explanatory variables this estimator identifies treatment effects free from selection bias. A natural experiment induces exogenous sub-regional variation in the training supply. This provides over-identifying restrictions that cannot be rejected. During participation, the transition rate decreases by 23% to 30%. Afterwards it increases by 47% to 73%. Making training available for a broader population would, however, reduce the effectiveness of the programme.

Those responsible for providing services to the newly unemployed face the need to make choices relative to the allocation of scarce resources. Making these choices requires data on the perceived needs of those to be served. A sample of newly umemployed workers responded to a questionnaire indicating their needs for information and community services.