Abandoning full employment creates an assisted liminal population as manpower reserve.

Evidence

So with this systemwhich,again, has not been applied for a number of reasons, but whose features are clearly visible in the current economic policy of Giscard and Barre-you have the formation of an economic policy which is no longer focused on full employment, and which can only be integrated in the general market economy by abandoning the objective of full employment along with its essential instrument of centrally planned growth. Full employment and volun- 6irisfgroWth are renounced in favor ofintegration in a maiket economy. But this entails a fund of a Boating population, of a liminal, infraor supra-liminal populaiion;-in -Which the assurance mechanism will enable each to live, after a fashion, and to live in such a way that he can alwaYsbe availablefor. possibleworl,<:, jrarket cpnditions require it. — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 1083

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Neo-liberalism replaces the peasant manpower reserve with an assisted liminal population. — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at…, 1084; Destitute floating populations supplied manpower for preindustrial urban riots — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 220; The unemployed reserve army disciplines employed workers into accepting overwork. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention, 258 (+1 more)

Broader Connections