num_pages: 465
description: Companion book to "Citizens Without Work." Preface "The Unemployed Worker and Citizens Without Work attempt to carry on in an American community the analysis of unemployment and its effects which the author began in England in 1931 and embodied in "The Unemployed Man." This volume deals with the adjustments in self-maintenance made by workers and their families when the customary means of self-maintenance is lacking." The World of Labor sections includes Why Work?, The Worker's Job, Hazards for Earners, Getting Ahead, The Worker Considers Causes and Cures, The Worker's Resources and Foresight and Planning. The World of Unemployed Labor includes Job Hunters, Looking for Work, Stretching the Income, Unemployment Compensation, Retreat to Relief, Challenges of Direct Relief to Independence, Effect of Direct Relief on Self-Reliance and Work for Relief. Includes index and appendix of tables. Bakke was professor of economics at Yale University.
language: English
title: The unemployed worker;: A study of the task of making a living without a job,
titlecomplete: The unemployed worker;: A study of the task of making a living without a job,
publisher: Archon Books