The UnemployedThe Unemployed, a classic study of the effect of unemployment and of the ways of relieving it upon actual, typical families of the 1930s and 1940s, is a vivid, startling picture of the demoralizing influence and consequences of America�s relief policies during the Depression years. The study comprises an incisive interpretation of the problem and a series of absorbing human interest stories of representative families on relief�cases selected from experiences of relief, including the records of families from various religious groups in an exhaustive study conducted in New York City. |
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The Unemployed: I. Interpretation. II. Case Studies Eli Ginzberg,Ethel L. Ginsburg Snippet view - 1943 |
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Page 3 - They have had no doubt as to the outcome of the war — but when they think of peace they are uneasy. These soldiers recall that the country fumbled badly in coming to grips with that scourge of peace — unemployment.' They remember that pregnant women were dispossessed from their homes; that farmers were thrown off their land; that husky men became soft from idleness. They remember all this and more, and they wonder what will happen when they have won the victory on the battlefield. They wonder...