Out of Work : The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts

Out of Work : The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts

A history of unemployment and the unemployed in Massachusetts during the hundred years previous to the stock market collapse of 1929. A study of the jobless - their backgrounds, conditions, and the social and political climate of their day - in Boston, in the state of Massachusetts, and in the United States more broadly. Attempts to fill a gap in scholarship on Massachusetts unemployment before 1930. Presents some untapped research data from that earlier period as a preface and fitting segue to a segment on the federal economic and labor reforms of the 1930s. Includes charts, graphs, and maps with respect to Massachusetts labor and unemployment statistics. Unemployment with respect to age, gender, naturalization status, the state of organized labor, and urbanity or rurality. Contains a rare sketch of Boston and New York City social justice activist, Urbain J. Ledoux - a.k.a. "Mr. Zero."

Keyssar, Alexander

Cambridge University Press

1986

en

Book

19th century - early 20th century; Massachusetts, United States

9780521297677

492

New York, New York

Cambridge University Press

Interdisciplinary perspectives on modern history

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