ABSTRACT
There has been no shortage of proposals for radical unemployment policies in France. On the right, proposals to eliminate unemployment by removing unemployment benefit have a long history, dating back to Jacques Rueff s calls in the 1930s. Further right still, the equation ‘number of unemployed equals number of immigrants’ has found a ready response in some sections of the population, as Jean-Marie Le Pen’s score of 15 per cent in the first round of the 1995 presidential elections showed.
