ABSTRACT
In the World War II, democratic and fascist countries are both preoccupied with labor shortages. There is more than an even chance that manpower reserves will yet decide the issue! War has brought many changes in its wake, not the least startling of which has been the momentary elimination of widespread unemployment. As far as the war is concerned, they have no doubt, they have no fear. But when they think of peace, they are uneasy. The soldiers recall that the country fumbled badly in coming to grips with that scourge of peace— unemployment. The unemployment of the 1930's has been studied extensively, but no one will contend that the literature has exhausted the subject. Conspicuously lacking are studies of the unemployed themselves. The unemployed themselves, Irish Catholic, Jew, and Anglo-Saxon Protestant, on Home Relief, on WPA, and those lucky enough to have escaped from the rolls co-operated to the fullest.
