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How to Deal with the Unemployed

How to Deal with the Unemployed

Higgs, Mary

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General World History

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ISBN10: 115131742X
ISBN13: 9781151317421
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 42
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.09 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX THE REALISATION OF THE IDEAL IN the foregoing chapters an attempt has been made to show the practical measures that would by degrees rid us of the problem of the unemployed. The conclusion is this: If well-organised Labour Markets with Labour Bureaux attached were situated in each of our trade centres, and provided steady work for our effectives by equalising trade depressions--if the ineffectives when weeded out were classified and dealt with separately by charitable institutions, backed up by a measure of State supervision and aid, and made partially or wholly self-supporting, and if the breeding of ineffectives was stopped--if the loafer, the thief of society, was treated penally--if the Poor Law was 186 reformed along these lines, and linked to municipal action, so as to provide adequately for the fluidity of labour, and for the promotion of effective education--if the central Government gave freedom to local action, but guided it into wise courses by accurate information and judicious subsidies--then we might see real progress made towards the abolition of unemployment, and this would itself sweep away many of the evils of our time. It is the Gospel of common sense to proclaim that unemployment is a curse to the community. A really earnest, enlightened, industrious nation would never allow the conditions of life that prevail among our slum population. The national curse of drunkenness, the debasement of our manufactures, the adulteration of our food, the instability of our commercial system, are not so much causes as effects. In the present stress and struggle Art is the slave of utility (falsely so called). The consequence is that life has lost its beauty, and the true Utility of? noble living is lost sight of. To a large extent exc...

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