List of Tables and Figures - Preface - INTRODUCTION - The Nature of Unemployment - Note on Methodology - Definitions - Extent of Unemployment in the OECD - Dimensions of Unemployment in the United Kingdom - Varieties of Unemployment - HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT - Unemployment and the Origins of Capitalism - The Trade Cycle - Structural and Technological Unemployment - Structural, Technological or Cyclical Unemployment? - THEORY: PETTY TO KEYNES - Lines of Descent - A Self-Regulating System - Precursors of the Welfare State - Marx: The Pursuit of the Trade Cycle: Keynes's Revolution - CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT - Intellectual Ingredients - Case Studies of Current Theories - ASSESSMENT OF CURRENT THEORIES - Methods - Supply-side Economics - Search Unemployment - Rational Expectations - The Natural Rate of Unemployment - Institutional Engineering - OPTIONS, STRATEGIES AND PROGNOSES - Disillusion - Palliatives - Evolution and Adaptation - Mutual Accommodation - Stalemate or Radical Change - Historical Imperatives - A Programme for Economic Research - Summary - Bibliography - Index