The Non-workers
Sir,—Mr Shand has announced a committee to study the hard-core unemployed. He says he does not want to compel people to work or interfere with their liberty. Let’s hope he can preserve these aims, perhaps even convince the Department of Labour. In a free society every person has the right to decide not only where he will work but whether he will work. The non-worker is a “sitter” for the-aggressive authoritarian — employer, official or parent—who likes to run others’ lives. Make him work, force him to cut his hair, punish him when he won’t conform. When someone takes a hard inde-
pendent look at our rat-race society, our acquisitive fanaticism and “wants out,” to blame him is to condemn oneself. On humanitarian grounds, ought anyone be denied the right to be a nonworker?—Yours, etc., SOCIAL WORKER. December 15, 1968.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31863, 16 December 1968, Page 16
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