ABSTRACT
This chapter determines the extent of vulnerability to unemployment which various segments of the labor force evinced. It attempts to analyze the distribution of unemployment by occupation, skill, region, age, sex and marital status. In addition, the chapter considers the duration and frequency of joblessness, trying to evaluate the degrees of risk—real and imagined—which confronted certain sections of the population on a daily basis. It strives to portray in theory what never existed in historical fact—a "typical" unemployed German industrial laborer. In a socio-economic context, the chapter delineates an ideal type of jobless worker and assesses his dilemma which loomed disproportionately large on the contemporary horizon. One of the most important determinants of unemployment was occupation, and workers in various sectors evinced widely differing susceptibilities to loss of their jobs. The chapter analyzes unemployed by breaking their number down into its component parts on the basis of occupation, duration of idleness, age, sex and marital status.
