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Out of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts (Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History)
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by Alexander Keyssar
Sales Rank: 840617
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List Price: $60.00
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Cover Type: Paperback with 488 pages
Published by: Cambridge University Press March 31, 1986
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0521297672
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0521297677
Book Dimensions:
9 x 6.1 x 1.2 inches
Weighs: 1.6 pounds
Product Description
Out of Work, the first book to chronicle the history of unemployment in the United States traces the evolution of the problem of joblessness from the early decades of the nineteenth century to the Great Depression of the 1930s. Challenging the widely held notion that the United States was a labour-scarce society in which jobs were plentiful, it argues that unemployment played a major role in American history long before the crash of the stock market in 1929. Focusing on the state of Massachusetts, Professor Kevssar analyses the economic and social changes that gave birth to the modern concept of unemployment. Drawing on previously untapped sources - including richly detailed statistics and vivid verbatim testimony - he demonstrates that joblessness was a pervasive feature of working-class life from the 1870s to the 1920s. The book describes the ingenious, yet personally costly, strategies that unemployed workers devised to cope with the joblessness in the absence of formal governmental assistance. It also explores the many dimensions of working-class life that were profoundly affected by recurrent lay-offs and the chronic uncertainty of work. Finally, it demonstrates that the fundamental contours of the Massachusetts experience were repeated, sooner or later, throughout the United States.
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