An attempt to analyse employment in Britain in which the author examines developments in the labour market since the war and assesses the contribution of national policy and ideology. Various forecasts of job prospects and analysis of employment and consumption trends are offered.

Time to change; who work?; unemployment; responding to mass unemployment - a backward glance; the Keynesian era; monetarism; what economic forecasts say; alternative accounts; how the British economy is developing; Britain is not producing enough of what people want to buy; productivity must be accommodated; identifying and aiming for Britain's best prospects.