ABSTRACT
In March at Dartington Hall School, Totnes, Devon, Leonard Knight Elmhurst advised a visitor, Dr. Oscar A. Oeser, to seek Rockefeller Foundation funds for a study of juvenile unemployment in Dundee. In July 1936, Oeser submitted to the Pilgrim Trust a preliminary report which stated that, while previous surveys had studied economic effects of unemployment on workers, the Dundee research concentrated on psychological, historical, and sociological problems of being without work. Hillman studied the Dundee population, outlined employment and unemployment in the jute industry’s development in the 1890s, and examined other industries from the 1880s to the present. Well over half Dundee’s population live in overcrowded homes; most youths aged fourteen leave school to work in a mill, factory, or shop, or live unemployed for months. Trists observed the Dundee community closely, and for the time they lived in the Gray Lodge, they offered help and advice on the future for its members.
