ABSTRACT
This chapter will be limited to the non-communist less-developed countries, firstly because of the lack of valid statistics for China and other Asian communist countries, and secondly because the problems of employment and unemployment in these countries are so very different from those of other countries. I shall divide the chapter into two sections, one dealing with the labour force as a whole and the other with the questions raised by unemployment and under-employment. But before I begin to analyse the figures, I should point out how relative and arbitrary all notions of employment and unemployment are when applied to societies of the Third World. The relative notions familiar to most readers are based on conditions which prevail in industrialized societies and differ in many respects from those in under-developed countries. I shall have to return to this point in greater detail at the beginning of section B.
