Deutsche Geschichte: Neueste Zeit

Unemployment in the United States

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Author:: Lamprecht, Karl http://d-nb.info/gnd/118569015

Title:: Deutsche Geschichte

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Year of publication:: 1891-

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Author:: Lamprecht, Karl http://d-nb.info/gnd/118569015

Title:: Neueste Zeit

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Publisher:: Weidmann

Year of publication:: 1909

Scope:: IX S., S. [361] - 749

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12 UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE UNITED STATES Mr. MicaeENER. Of course, my purpose was to show the number of people out of employment by choice and not of necessity. You see, 1 referred to normal times—the times when we were all satisfied. Now in those times we have, you state, about 9 per cent of our working people out of employment; so we have between two and three million men in this country out of employment at all times, then, in the most prosperous times? Mr. Green. I am not sure. Those figures would be debatable, of course; they are highly controversial, and then you must take into consideration the fact there is a shifting going on; men are moving from one place to the other, seeking employment and most of the time it is temporary. This is 3,700,000 out of work, willing to work and who can not find work. That is the report. You must differ- entlate between a group of men classified as unemployed, under that head, and perhaps a million men out of work part of the time, due to seasonal causes, or other causes, under normal conditions. There is a vast difference. Mr. Montague. I did not catch your answer to Mr. Michener’s question. I do not think he put it exactly as I thought. I repeat this phase of it: You speak of 9 per cent of men unemployed. Now there is an involuntary unemployment. Mr. GreEN. Yes. I did not understand what he meant. Mr. MonTaGUE. And there is a percentage of people who are voluntarily out of employment, also. Mr. Green. I do not understand what he means by voluntary unemployment. Mr. Mo~Tacue. I will use another word. There are 9 per cent of the people unemployed. Mr. GreEEN. Yes, sir. Mr. MonTaGUE. There is a percentage of people who do not. wish employment; you can not make them work. Mr. GREEN. Perhaps so, yes. I think you are right on that. Mr. Montague. Do not you come upon that in your experience? Mr. Green, Yes; that is excluded. Mr. Montague. This is voluntary unemployment, vou might call it. Mr. GrEEN. Yes. Mr. Montague. The man who won’t work and can work, he is a voluntarily unemployed man. Mr. Green. Idle out of choice. Mr. MicueNer. I mean, by involuntarily, when times are pros- perous, when we are all satisfied, when there is a job for every man who wants one, in those times there are 9 per cent of the total Yorking population of the country unemploved. That ought to be clear. Mr. MonTacuE. Would you call that involuntarily unemployed? Mr. MicaexNer. I do not want to quibble over words. Mr. MonTAGUE. I am not quibbling over words. Mr. MicrENER. I just want to find out how many won't work and how many will work. Mr. Green. We can easily get confused on that, because I am talking about wage earners, men and women, willing to work, seeking work, but who can not find the work. Those are the people I am talking about now. I realize you may become confused by men and women who may be classified as idle. who are taking vacation

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