CONTENTS

CHAPTER  I
THE  MEANING  OF  “UNEMPLOYMENT”

Unemployment  as  Waste  of  Labour-power  i
2 '  Leakage  in  “  Season  ”  Trades  2
3-  Is  Winter  Slackness  Unemployment  ?  Official  View...  3
4-  The  Social  Estimate  of  Waste  Labour  5
5-  The  “  Unemployed  ”  by  Trade  Depression  6
6.  Summary  of  Official  View  of  “  Unemployment  ”  8
7.  A  wider  Meaning  of  “Unemployed”  is  Legitimate  ...  9

CHAPTER  II
THE  MEASURE  OF  UNEMPLOYMENT

ï.  Defective  General  Statistics  11
2 ‘  ^  Trade-Union  Average  12
3-  1  rades  which  Contribute  to  the  Board  of  Trade  Returns.  .  13
4-  No  full  Measure  of  Unemployed  Unionists  14
5*  Prime  Object  of  Unions  to  Avoid  Unemployment.  ...  16
A  Larger  Figure  for  Non-Unionists  17
7-  Unemployed  in  Unorganised  Trades  18