In compiling unemployment statistics for the United States and other developed countries, an unemployed person is defined as anyone who is capable of working and is actively seeking work but is unable to find a job.1Before a person can be unemployed in this sense he must be an active member of the l...

For my book report I choose a book titled The End of Work by Jeremy Rifkin. It discusses the decline of the global labor force and the dawn of the Post-Market Era. Jeremy Rifkin is president of the Foundation on Economic Trends in Washington, D.C., and has published more than a dozen books on eco...

Synopsis & Book Critique of Linda McQuaig's "The Wealthy Banker's Wife". Synopsis of the author's main argument and rationale: Linda McQuaig in her piece focused on our welfare state performance and status, The Wealthy Banker's Wife, discusses the current sta...