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Unemployed and Public Employment Agencies (Volume 3)

Unemployed and Public Employment Agencies (Volume 3)

Sutherland, Edwin Hardin

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ISBN10: 1151721816
ISBN13: 9781151721815
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 106
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.25 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
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. 1914 Excerpt: ...maintained almost exclusively for agricultural laborers; this is the obvious purpose of the agencies maintained in Wisconsin and New York by the state departments of agriculture. And the Director of the Kansas Free Employment Bureau stated that the great and all-important duty of the Bureau is to furnish hands to gather our immense crops. Kansas, 12th Annual Report, 1912, p. 5. The agencies operated by the Bureau of Immigration limit their activities definitely to farm labor, common labor, domestic labor and settlers, and, also, largely to immigrants. United States, Annual Report of Commissioner of Immigration, 1909, pp. 232-34. These facts would indicate that the public employment agencies have limited their activities in actual practice to a comparatively small part of the labor market, being confined in most cases to the inferior labor market, frequently confined, also, to one sex in the inferior labor market. There has been a slight degree of co-operation, however, between the public agencies and some of the other kinds of agencies. This co-operation is most apparent in the relationship between philanthropic agencies and the public agencies. It is reported that there is active co-operation between agencies of these types in Minneapolis, Sargent, loc. cit., p. 98. but in Chicago and Boston the co-operation has seemed to be unsuccessful. Kellor, loc. cit., pp. 246-50; Massachusetts, Report of Commission to Investigate Employment Offices, 1911, p. 76. The agency maintained in New York City by the Bureau of Immigration cooperates with the charitable societies and the immigration associations, as well as with the agency of the State Department of Agriculture. United States, Annual Report of Commissioner of Immigration, 1910, p. 239. Again, some o...

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