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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