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Out of work: the first century of unemployment in Massachusetts
Alexander Keyssar
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Frontmatter
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List of illustrations and tables (page ix)
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Preface (page xiii)
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1 Introduction (page 1)
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2 The social origins of unemployment (page 9)
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Early shelters (page 10)
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The great transformation (page 14)
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Different paths (page 22)
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A lengthening shadow (page 31)
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Daily earnings and daily wants (page 36)
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3 The era of uncertainty (page 39)
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Growth and dependence (page 40)
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Panics and depressions (page 47)
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Idleness in good times (page 57)
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The reserve army of the unemployed (page 69)
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4 Sharing the burden (page 77)
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Immigrants and natives (males) (page 77)
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Boys and men (page 90)
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Women without work (page 96)
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Segmented competition (page 109)
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5 From place to place (page 111)
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Cities and towns (page 112)
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Unemployment and mobility (page 123)
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Tramps (page 130)
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6 Coping (page 143)
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A spectrum of needs (page 144)
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Institutional relief (page 150)
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Self-insurance, snowfalls, kin, and grocers (page 155)
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Anxiety and despair (page 166)
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Aftereffects (page 172)
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7 Organizing labor (page 177)
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The collective problem (page 178)
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Helping one's own (page 186)
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Shorter hours (page 191)
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Protecting turf (page 202)
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Voluntarism and involuntary idleness (page 211)
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The fruits of their labor (page 216)
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8 From the Common to the State House (page 222)
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Muted voices (page 222)
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Morrison I. Swift: Capitalists Are the Cause of the Unemployed (page 225)
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Urbain J. Ledoux: "Lift Up Your Hearts" (page 237)
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Confrontation and redemption (page 246)
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9 "The greatest evil of our competitive industrial system" (page 250)
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Lag time: 1870-1907 (page 251)
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Reformers and businessmen (page 262)
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Two steps forward, one step back (page 272)
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Toward a new political economy (page 285)
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10 Epilogue: The Bay State and the nation (page 299)
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Appendix A: Supplementary tables (page 308)
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Appendix B: About the numbers: unemployment statistics before the Great Depression (page 342)
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Notes (page 359)
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Index (page 453)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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JEH | 48.1 (Mar. 1988): 215-217 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-0507%28198803%2948%3A1%3C215%3A%3E2.0.CO%3B2-K |
AJS | 93.2 (Sep. 1987): 497-498 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-9602%28198709%2993%3A2%3C497%3A%3E2.0.CO%3B2-J |
CS | 16.4 (Jul. 1987): 492-493 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0094-3061%28198707%2916%3A4%3C492%3A%3E2.0.CO%3B2-4 |
RAH | 15.1 (Mar. 1987): 101-104 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0048-7511%28198703%2915%3A1%3C101%3AIUIM1%3E2.0.CO%3B2-4 |
JAH | 73.4 (Mar. 1987): 1049-1050 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8723%28198703%2973%3A4%3C1049%3A%3E2.0.CO%3B2-U |
AHR | 92.1 (Feb. 1987): 223 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28198702%2992%3A1%3C223%3AOOWTFC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-9 |
TS | 17.3 (May 1988): 464-473 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0304-2421%28198805%2917%3A3%3C464%3AOOWTFC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-I |
JIH | 18.3 (Winter 1988): 548-550 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-1953%28198824%2918%3A3%3C548%3AOOWTFC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-J |
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Published: 1986
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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