ABSTRACT
Many of the conditions underlying the various forms of unemployment described in the previous chapter are obviously natural or technical and not due directly to the form of control of industry. Seasonal variation in the weather affecting building operations or affecting the domestic demand for coal can hardly be attributed to capitalism; and, whatever the system of control, progress and reduction in cost of production are bound to incur some risk of technological unemployment. Moreover, certain devices such as money and the charging of prices are common to capitalism and to other systems such as the Soviet communism. Analysis of conditions underlying unemployment with its prevention in view must therefore distinguish conditions that can be changed (either by changing the form of industrial control or otherwise), and conditions which cannot be changed without losing more than was gained.
