The job-guarantee program presented in the chapter isn't the only job program that has been proposed. The President Roosevelt's New Deal was implemented with full employment in mind.
Sweden also implemented a jobs program. And in 2001 Argentina implemented full-employment programs with varying success.
Read this article by Randy Wray at naked capitalism to read about full-employment program, including the one in Argentina.
How did the Argentinean program limit participation in the program? Were the jobs useful to society? Were they efficient?
What was the role of gender in the program and its perceived success? Is work a fundamental right? Why or why not?