Der Band versammelt die Beiträge zu einer Konferenz, die 1994 unter dem gleichen Titel stattfand. Der erste Bericht der Kreisky-Kommission zum Thema war 1989 im selben Verlag erschienen ("Zwanzig Millionen suchen Arbeit"). Inhalt: Franz Vranitzky: Foreword (11-17); Franz Ceska: Opening Remarks (19-21); Hans-Jürgen Krupp: Introductory Address (23-27); Franz Vranitzky: Welcome Address (29-34); Kurt Rothschild: Introduction (35-46); Lewis Alexander: The Detroit Jobs Conference (47-60); Tatiana Yugai: Unemployment in Russia: Problems and Paradoxes (61-79); Ewald Walterskrichen: Kreisky Commission: A Program for Full Employment in the 1990s (81-87); Josef Hesoun: Welcome Address (89-92); Allan Larsson: European Employment Policy and the 1996 Inter-Governmental Conference (93-106); Paavo Lipponen: New European Demand: Better Employment in the Future (107-111); Ferdinand Lacina: The International Dimension of Unemployment (113-121); Heribert Maier: Global Issues of Unemployment (North-South and East-West Problem; Global Trends and Global Concepts) (123-136); John Zysman: Technology and Trade: Villains or Saviors in the Struggle for Employment (137-169); Adrian Wood: Structural Unemployment in the North: Global Causes, domestic cures (171-192); Thomas Nowotny: The Politics of Unemployment (193-210).