Content of this book include the following papers: (1) "Can Services Be Humane in This Society? Can Work Be Meaningful?," F. Riessman; (2) "The Historical Development of the Conception and Implementation of Full Employment as Economic Policy," R. A. Nixon; (3) "How Many Jobs for Whom?," B. Gross and S. Moss; (4) "A note on Public Jobs and Full Employment for Youth," E. Cohen; (5) "The Human Service Society . . .," A. Pearl; (6) "A Feminist--Humanist's Concept of Employment," W. S. Heide; (7) "A Full Employment Policy for a Public Service Economy: Implications for Women," C. S. Bell; (8) "A Feminist System of Education for a New Public Service," A. C. Cohen; (9) "Equality of Sacrifice or Opportunity?, A. F. Hawkins; (10) "Public Jobs and the New Economy," R. Lekachman; (11) "The Economic Consequences of Public Employment," M. J. Ulmer; (12) "Comment of a Radical Economist," B. Harrison; (13) "Public Employment and the Public Service," M. Gittell; (14) "'Merit' Systems and Workers," S. M. Rosen; (15) "Can Unions Transcend Their Own Self-Interest," S. Aronowitz; (16) "Manpower Programs: the Lessons of the 1960s," W. Spring; (17) "Taking Stock of the Public Employment Program," S. Levitan and R. Taggart III; (18) "Assessing the Emergency Employment Act," A. Gartner; (19) "The Relationship of Welfare and Employment Policy," S. Kinoy; (20) "Jobs or Work Activities--Which Will the Poor Get?," M. Lowenthal; (21) "Work and the Public Service Economy . . .," I. Berg; Public Service Employment; (22) ". . . Potential Dangers and Possible Directions," F. Reissman; (23) ". . . Vision or Reality," F. F. Piven. (JM)