ABSTRACT
Consideration of the effect of unemployment insurance on the employment exchanges in their function as labor-placing agencies may usefully be prefaced by a brief description of a typical Exchange, a summary of routine work, and consideration of the major difficulties encountered in the daily course. Out of a large number of employment exchanges in different parts of England, the work of which the author has been privileged to inspect, the Stepney Exchange, located on the edge of the East End of London, may be chosen as representative. The applicant, falling out of work, calls at the Exchange and enters his claim for unemployment benefit. Each local Employment Committee, which works through smaller sub-committees known as “Rotas,” is composed of equal numbers of representatives of employers and employed in the district covered by the Exchange. The unemployed worker who is entitled to benefit may without prejudice to its payment occupy himself in part time employment while waiting reference to work.
