ABSTRACT
This volume explores the idea of unemployment, as nineteenth-century economists constructed the category ‘unemployment’, referring to a structural problem that caused ‘genuine workmen’ to be temporarily unemployed through no fault of their own. Sources examine how social thinkers and politicians put forward a range of arguments about the reasons for unemployment, the increasingly detailed categorization of people without work, and the growing movement to represent ‘labour’ both inside and outside Parliament, in large part to address the problem of unemployment. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this volume will be of great interest to students of British History.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|103 pages
The ‘Discovery of Unemployment’
chapter 1|18 pages
J. A. Hobson, ‘The Meaning and Measure of Unemployment’
chapter 2|10 pages
C. H. Oldham, The Fluctuating Character of Modern Employment, Read before the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland
chapter 3|8 pages
H. Cox, Protection and Employment
chapter 4|11 pages
W. H. Beveridge, ‘Labour Exchanges and the Unemployed’
chapter 6|15 pages
N. Adler and R. H. Tawney, Boy and Girl Labour
chapter 7|6 pages
C. Osborne, ‘The Poor Law Commission: III. The Unemployment Problem’
chapter 8|9 pages
L. H. Berens, Talk Unemployment
chapter 9|7 pages
C.J.F.M., ‘Aspects of Unemployment’
chapter 10|9 pages
J. Tawney, ‘Women and Unemployment’
part 2|90 pages
Classification of the Out-of-Works
chapter 13|5 pages
B. Potter (Later Webb), ‘A Lady's View of the Unemployed in the East’
chapter 14|4 pages
A. Woodworth, Report of an Inquiry into the Condition of the Unemployed Conducted under the Toynbee Trust
chapter 16|9 pages
W. H. Beveridge, ‘Unemployment in London—I’
chapter 17|9 pages
S. Barnett, Industrial Invalids: The Unemployable and the Unemployed
chapter 18|7 pages
J. R. Motion, The Unemployed in Glasgow, 1904–1905
chapter 19|7 pages
F. Thoresby, ‘How to Deal with the Unemployed’
chapter 20|7 pages
F. L. Donaldson, The Unemployed
chapter 21|15 pages
P. Alden and E. E. Hayward, The Unemployable and the Unemployed
chapter 22|8 pages
J. S. Woodsworth, Strangers within our Gates, or, Coming Canadians
part 3|108 pages
The Politics of Unemployment