Income mixes: Work and income beyond full employment

By introducing the term “income mixes” the article covers different patterns of people's practices of combining incomes from different sources. In the development of modern capitalist societies the change of these patterns follows a reconstructable order. The article offers a description of the changing patterns of income mixes, links the development in Western capitalist societies with the development in the new reform societies in Central and Eastern Europe, and draws some political consequences for the future development of income mixes. The main aim is to reorient the social scientific perspective from a normativ commitment to full employment to an empirical and analytical attention of people's factual income strategies.