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Out of work: the first century of unemployment in Massachusetts
Keyssar, Alexander.
Year: 1986.
Publisher:  Cambridge University Press. 
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table of contents
Frontmatter
List of illustrations and tables
Preface
1 Introduction
2 The social origins of unemployment
Early shelters
The great transformation
Different paths
A lengthening shadow
Daily earnings and daily wants
3 The era of uncertainty
Growth and dependence
Panics and depressions
Idleness in good times
The reserve army of the unemployed
4 Sharing the burden
Immigrants and natives (males)
Boys and men
Women without work
Segmented competition
5 From place to place
Cities and towns
Unemployment and mobility
Tramps
6 Coping
A spectrum of needs
Institutional relief
Self-insurance, snowfalls, kin, and grocers
Anxiety and despair
Aftereffects
7 Organizing labor
The collective problem
Helping one's own
Shorter hours
Protecting turf
Voluntarism and involuntary idleness
The fruits of their labor
8 From the Common to the State House
Muted voices
Morrison I. Swift: Capitalists Are the Cause of the Unemployed
Urbain J. Ledoux: "Lift Up Your Hearts"
Confrontation and redemption
9 "The greatest evil of our competitive industrial system"
Lag time: 1870-1907
Reformers and businessmen
Two steps forward, one step back
Toward a new political economy
10 Epilogue: The Bay State and the nation
Appendix A: Supplementary tables
Appendix B: About the numbers: unemployment statistics before the Great Depression
Notes
Index
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Title: Out of work : the first century of unemployment in Massachusetts Alexander Keyssar.
Author: Keyssar, Alexander
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Source Version: Out of work : the first century of unemployment in Massachusetts Alexander Keyssar. 
Keyssar, Alexander
Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.00600
Subject Headings: • Unemployment -- Massachusetts -- History -- 19th century
• Unemployment -- Massachusetts -- History -- 20th century
• Massachusetts -- Social conditions
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