Authoritarian regimes can hold down unemployment through forced redistribution of work and time.
Evidence
If necessary, the work will be distributed and labor time shortened, technical progress stopped or even reversed, wages lowered and prices raised. There are dozens of such devices available in an authoritarian regime … Full employment is accompanied by an elaborate social-security program. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 310
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Authoritarian regimes have reserve devices to prevent mass unemployment — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1190; Authoritarian regimes can overcome economic vicious circles without creating genuine trust — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1655; State control of credit, money, and labor prevents slumps becoming mass unemployment. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 310 (+2 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Authoritarian regimes have reserve devices to prevent mass unemployment — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1190; Authoritarian regimes can overcome economic vicious circles without creating genuine trust — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1655; State control of credit, money, and labor prevents slumps becoming mass unemployment. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 310 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- A reserve army of unemployed workers structurally disciplines labor under capitalism
#complicates(0.78) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 150 - Monetary austerity deliberately manufactures unemployment to compress wages.
#complicates(0.75) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 284