The Unemployed

ISBN-13: 9780765805744 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 437 str.

Eli Ginzberg; Ben B. Seligman

Opis

This 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.Most research on unemployment of the 1930s conspicuously lacks studies of the unemployed themselves. Yet, this is the crux of the matter--necessary to truly understand the cbnsequences of unemployment then and now, so as to deal with it intelligently and efficiently. This book deals with what employment does to people. It answers important questions about the unemployed that are rarely asked. Who are they? Did they fail to earn a living even in prosperous times? What precipitated their unemployment? Do they prefer relief to work? Did unemployment bring about changes in how they think and feel? This is a volume of continuing relevance, and will be of interest to legislators, economists, social scientists, social workers, and psychologists.

Spis treści

Book One: Interpretation; Introduction; I: Before Relief; I: The Background of the Families; II: Married and Self-Supporting; II: The Interim Period; III: From Work to Relief; III: Relief; IV: Home Relief; V: Work Relief; VI: Living on Relief; VII: Thinking on Relief; IV: Re-Employability; VIII: In Search of a Job; V: Policy; IX: A Good System of Relief; X: One-Third of a Nation; Epilogue: The War; Appendix Method; Book Two: Case Studies; Introduction; I: Home Relief; Case One: Corey Family; Case Two: Becker Family; Case Three: Barton Family; II WPA; Case Four: Mahoney Family; Case Five: Berger Family; Case Six: Gunther Family; III: Closed to Private Employment; Case Seven: Clancy Family; Case Eight: Wallach Family; Case Nine: Caldwell Family; IV: Private Employment; Case Ten: O’Leary Family; Case Eleven: Katz Family; Case Twelve: Parsons Family

O autorze

Eli Ginzberg