ABSTRACT
Work or maintenance—Why Governments prefer to maintain the unemployed in idleness—False economy of this policy—The need for a totally new approach to the problem of unemployment—Work for all—The proposed National Labour Corps—To be based on voluntary enrolment—A disciplined body—Working at a fixed standard of pay and hours—With additional allowances for dependents—The need for industrial training— Conditions of service in the Corps—Answers to criticism of the scheme— The work of the Corps—Cleaning up England—Slum clearance and housing—Attitude of building employers and workers considered—A retrospect of housing policy—The Labour Corps as an emergency organisation—Will it become permanent?—The problem of women's unemployment—Possible use of the Labour Corps by a reactionary Government considered—The Corps will increase Trade Union bargaining power—Why it is indispensable to get the unemployed back to work.
