Of course, no defender of a right to a job is likely to claim that governments should supply every citizen with a job. A modified version would claim that government has the responsibility to provide jobs compatible with qualifications to those who are able to work but unable to find jobs in the private sector. Government would be the employer of last resort. Something like this seems to have been operating at least implicitly in many industrialized democracies through the latter half of the twentieth century. Something similar to this was also used by the U.S. federal government as a response to the Great Depression of the 1930s.