Eli Ginzberg

The Unemployed (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 418
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351302357
• Artikelnr.: 49266442

Autorenporträt

Eli Ginzberg

Inhaltsangabe

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