...Harold Fields Copyright © 1931 by Duke University Press 1931 UNEMPLOYMENT AND THE ALIEN HAROLD FIELDS FEW years ago, while in communication with the president of one of the largest automobile concerns in America, I was astonished to read in one of his replies, the statement that, although...

...Howard Douglas Dozier Copyright © 1932 by Duke University Press 1932 MEN, WOMEN AND UNEMPLOYMENT HOWARD DOUGLAS DOZIER I ^EN years ago this week, the last in September, 1921, A somebody put this in the paper: The effect of the war in precipitating the entrance of women into public life...

...John P. Troxell Copyright © 1933 by Duke University Press 1933 The South Atlantic Quarterly Vol. XXXII APRIL, 1933 Number 2 THE OUTLOOK FOR UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE JOHN P. TROXELL IT IS difficult to appraise public opinion in the absence of straw votes or other referenda, yet the sternest...

...Earl E. Muntz Copyright © 1931 by Duke University Press 1931 A LESSON IN UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE EARL E. MUNTZ THE PRESENT industrial depression will no doubt prove an effective stimulus for innumerable social and economic reforms. Many of these will actually be expedie adjustments and a great...

...David G. Davies Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 Unemployment, Inflation, and Public Policy David G. Davies Through the programs of the New Deal, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt attempted to come to grips with the problem of mass unemployment. England as well as other...

... the ongoing recession as producing such a return is to thoroughly misapprehend value production in post-Fordism and, in particular, to bracket the process of the folding of the economy into society. To illustrate this process, I focus on unemployment, specifically the eventful productiveness of unemployment...

... based on social and economic justice. The essay then charts the uprising’s demise amid protestor division, mass poverty and unemployment, galloping inflation, palpable insecurity, COVID-19 lockdowns, and external intervention. Hizbullah became the elephant in the room, with sectarian tension and some...

...Heather Gautney Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is part of an ongoing series of pro-democracy protests throughout the United States against alarming trends in social inequality, high rates of home foreclosure and unemployment, and the excessive influence of corporate and financial interests on government...

... bureaucratic processes to demand economic security through legalized direct actions. Rideshare Drivers United (RDU) a group of self-organizing Uber and Lyft drivers whom I studied devised means to collectively deluge the state with individual appeals for unemployment insurance, forcing attention...

... population, (2) mounting unemployment in the modern sectors of the economy as well as widespread under­ employment in traditional agriculture, (3) shortages of persons with critical skills and knowledge required for effective national development, (4) inadequate or underdeveloped organizations...

... the hours of labor of women and children, and men in dangerous trades, and is today true with reference to banking reform, social insurance including such types as unemployment insurance, old age, and health insurance, and other problems. Nevertheless, it is the depression phase of the business cycle which...

... with acts of God, implying, apparently, that unemployment is the product of some sinister power. Presidential and other fact­ finding, or job-finding, commissions are seeking to function, when there are no jobs. A dramatic appeal to American in­ dustry to create jobs by undertaking new projects, not justi­...

... of the election can­ vass last year the press barons, Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Rothermere, together with Mr. J. L. Garvin, editor of the Ob­ server, kept insisting that the party should have stressed Unemployment and Imperial Development, and that had it taken that strong line instead of Safety First...

... for labor in some general or average sense, or they may be the schedules for some particular class (es) of labor or some subset of the population, such as labor in an occupation or an industry or a geographic region, or labor defined by some criterion of age, sex, race, duration of unemployment...

... will confront us. Moreover, it was the cause of repeated economic crises resulting in unemployment and loss of output. The thinking behind the program assumed underconsumption. Existing markets, it was asserted, nearly always proved inade­ quate to absorb potential production, even though the needs of con­...

... in terms of constant purchasing power and a varying weight of gold. 342 The South Atlantic Quarterly Price stabilization, they believe, will do away with alternate periods of rising prices, profits and speculation, and falling prices, losses, deflation and unemployment. Distraught industry, however, can...

... system to restrain capital accumu- lation, so as to create unemployment in order to reduce upward pressure on wages. (Michał Kalecki analyzed this dynamic in his prescient 1943 article, “Political Aspects of Full Employment.”4) The increasing-­rate-­of-­ exploitation crisis more often...

.... The disappointment as to reparations, the failure of reconstruction, and the continuance of serious unemployment all served to bring the ministry into disrepute, which was accentuated by the honors scandal and the heavy expense of the secretariat. The ultra-Conservatives (the Diehards ) were eager to win...

... in this article. The National Insurance Act undertakes to offer partialremedies for two social ills, sickness and unemployment. In dealing with these questions it is also inevitably concernedindirectly with such other questions as poverty, sanitation, and the like. Since, how­ ever, distinct schemes are proposed...

... of the net increase in em­ ployment between 1948 and 1963, and had they not expanded as they did the country would have been ridden with unemployment. The shift to services reflects the operation of four forces. First, output per man increased more than three times faster in goodsproduction than in services...