ABSTRACT
This volume explores primarily late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century efforts to solve the problem of unemployment in the context of the new understandings of ‘unemployment’. The sources show the continuing power of discovering men’s commitment to work by finding ways to make them work. This volume focuses on emigration to put unemployed men to work in the British colonies, the various projects to employ urban men without work on the land, and the increasing ‘Intervention of the State’ in efforts like emigration and labour colonies. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this volume will be of great interest to students of British History.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|121 pages
Emigration and Empire
chapter 1|4 pages
Anon., ‘Useful Caution to Emigrants’
Moral Reformer 3:11 (November 1833), pp. 340–342
chapter 2|10 pages
J. Crawford, Employment for the Million; or, Emigration and Colonization on a National or Extended Scale, the Remedy for National Distress, in a Letter Addressed to her Majesty's Ministers
(London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1842), pp. 3–12
chapter 3|6 pages
E. Jones, Evenings with the People – the Unemployed, an Address. The Great Smithfield Meeting. A Reply to the “Times” and to Minor Opponents and an Insight into the Prospects of Emigrants in our Colonies and the United States
(Published by the Author at the People's Paper Office, 1857)
chapter 5|4 pages
R. A. Arnold, Plan for the Temporary Employment of Operatives and Workmen in Casual Distress
(London: W. W. Head, 1868), pp. 3–4
chapter 6|6 pages
National Emigration Aid Society, Facts Respecting our Unemployed Able-Bodied Poor: And the Great Advantages which Emigration to British Colonies would Confer, both by Immensely Improving their Condition as Well as Increasing Trade and Reducing the Poor's Rate
(London: Charity Organisation Society, 1869)
chapter 8|8 pages
H. L. Hastings, Hints on Emigration: An Address to a Company of the London Unemployed
(London: Samuel Bagster & Sons, 1882), pp. 13–19, 24–28
chapter 9|7 pages
W. Hazell, A Social Experiment: Being an Account of the Working of Bird Green Test Farm for the Unemployed, 1891–1894
(London: Charity Organisation Society, 1895), pp. 3–12
chapter 11|12 pages
H. L. Humphreys, ‘Emigration’, in County Borough of West Ham Distress Committee, Third Annual Report and Secretary's General Review, 1905–8
(London: County Borough of West Ham, 1908), pp. 33–40
chapter 12|35 pages
G. A. Williamson, Report to the Central (Unemployed) Body for London on Visit to Australia and New Zealand
(London, 1911), pp. 1–26
part 2|107 pages
Domestic Labour Colonies
chapter 13|12 pages
H. V. Mills, ‘The Problem Stated’ and ‘Co-Operative Estates: The Remedy’, in Poverty and the State, or Work for the Unemployed
(London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1886), pp. 1–8, 163–167, 171–174, 177–178, 184–187
chapter 14|9 pages
A. E. Petrie, Labour and Independence or Profitable Work for those in Need of it
(London: Stanford, 1887), pp. 9–13, 19–29
chapter 15|12 pages
S. A. Barnett, ‘A Scheme for the Unemployed’
Nineteenth Century: Monthly Review 24:141 (November 1888), pp. 753–763
chapter 16|15 pages
H. E. Moore, ‘The Unemployed and the Land’
Contemporary Review 63 (1893), pp. 423–438
chapter 17|5 pages
H. V. Mills, ‘The Colony at Starnthwarte’, In J. Hobson (Ed), Cooperative Labour upon the Land, and Other Papers
(London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1895), pp. 64–69
chapter 18|9 pages
E. H. Kerwin, A Labour Colony in Working Order
(London: George Reynolds, 1895), pp. 3–11
chapter 20|6 pages
‘Speech by Mr. Fels’, In Report of Conference on the Problem of Unemployment Held in the County Hotel, Newcastle upon Tyne, Wednesday 1st February, 1905
(Newcastle Upon Tyne: Doig Brothers, 1905), pp. 8–13
chapter 21|9 pages
H. Brown, City of Leeds, Unemployed Workmen Act, 1905: Report of Sub-Committee as to Farms and Labour Colonies
(Leeds: Town Clerk's Office, 1905), pp. 3–12
chapter 22|7 pages
Central Unemployed Committee, Minutes of Hollesley Bay Rota Committee
27 October 1906
chapter 23|12 pages
H. L. Humphreys, ‘Farm Colony’, In County Borough of West Ham Distress Committee, Third Annual Report and Secretary's General Review, 1905–8
(London: County Borough of West Ham, 1908), pp. 26–31
chapter 24|5 pages
W. Booth, ‘Vagrants: A Proposal’, In The Vagrant and the Unemployable: A Proposal whereby Vagrants may be Detained under Suitable Conditions and Compelled to Work
(London: Salvation Army, 1909), pp. 17–23
part 3|137 pages
The Intervention of the State
chapter 25|9 pages
H. R. Smart, The Right to Work
(Manchester, UK: Labour Press Society, 1895), pp. 1–5, 15–16
chapter 26|7 pages
G. C. T. Bartley, London and the Unemployed Problem (To the Editor of the Times)
Occasional Paper No. 5, Fourth Series (London: Charity Organisation Society, 1905), pp. 1–6
chapter 27|16 pages
Trades Union Congress, Report of Deputation to the Rt. Hon. A.J. Balfour, M.P., February 7th, 1905, on ‘Unemployment,’ and Mr. Balfour's Reply
(London: Cooperative Printing Society, 1905), pp. 4–14
chapter 28|16 pages
J. K. Hardie, John Bull and his Unemployed: A Plain Statement on the Law of England as it Affects the Unemployed
(London: ILP, 1905), pp. 3–6, 8–16
chapter 29|10 pages
A. M. Humphry, The Unemployed Workmen Act as Administered During the Winter of 1905–1906, A Paper Read at a Meeting of the Poor Law Workers' Society
(London: Spottiswoode and Co., 1906), pp. 5–14
chapter 30|10 pages
County of Birkenhead, Birkenhead Distress Committee, Report of the Distress Committee for the Period Ended 29th September 1906
(Birkenhead, UK: Birkenhead Distress Committee, 1906), pp. 3–11
chapter 31|21 pages
City of Edinburgh, ‘Unemployed Workmen Act 1905’, In Distress Committee for the City of Edinburgh & Report for the Local Board for Scotland, 1905–1907
(Edinburgh: Lorimer and Chalmers, 1907), pp. 7–18, 22–25, 27–28
chapter 33|8 pages
H. L. Humphreys, ‘Employment Exchanges’, In County Borough of West Ham Distress Committee
(London, 1908), pp. 1–6
chapter 34|14 pages
J. R. MacDonald, The New Unemployed Bill of the Labour Party
(London: Independent Labour Party, 1907), pp. 3–15
chapter 35|5 pages
G. Lansbury, ‘Unemployment’
Economic Review 17:3 (July 1907), pp. 299, 301–304, 306–308
chapter 36|6 pages
David Lloyd George, Introduction of Unemployment Insurance to Parliament
UK Hansard, House of Commons Debates, 4 May 1911, vol. 25, cols. 609–644
