The prevention of unemployment.

  • National Committee for the Prevention of Destitution.
Date:
[1910?]
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    prevent the occurrence of unemployment, we should have taken the edge off a problem that may yet cut modern society to pieces. To continue to let preventable sickness and preventable unemploy- ment occur for lack of measures of prevention, and then to meet part of the pecuniary waste from an insurance fund, may be an extravagant way of dealing with the problem of destitution. But in so far as the insurance extends, it is a way of dealing with it. Whatever we may think of State schemes of insurance in their other aspects, they do, at any rate, offer the solid benefits of State responsibility and State provision. For the Government to assume responsibility for the medical treatment and “ sick pay” of all sick persons, on the one hand, and, on the other, for providing “out of work pay” for all unemployed persons in certain specified industries, would repre- sent an immense onward stride in the recognition of that “ indissoluble partnership,” on which, as the Minority Report asserts, the maintenance of any definite standard of civilised life depends. To get that much onward, we may put up with some imperfections and run some risks. Our aim should be by carefully thinking out the dangers, to get inserted such provisions as will minimise these imperfections and risks; and, also, on the other hand, such provisions as will make the “benefits” as genuinely “curative” and as nearly universal as possible. New and Revised Edition now ready The Industrial System: An Enquiry into Earned and Unearned Income. Containing a Theory of Cyclical Depressions and Unemployment BY J. A. HOBSON. Price 7s. 6d. net. LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO. A BlBLIOGMPfiY ON UNEMPLOYMENT. Beveridge, W. H.—Unemployment ; A Problem of Industry. (1909. Longmans. 7s. 6d.) Chapman, S. J., and H. M. Hali.sworth.—Un- employment : The Results of an Investigation made in Lancashire. (1909. Manchester University Press. 2s.) Dearle, N. B.—Unemployment in the Building Trades. (1909. Dent. 3s. 6d.) Hobson, J. A.—The Problem of the Unemployed. (1908. Methuen. 2s. 6d.) Jackson, Cyril.—Unemployment and Trade Unions. (1910. Longmans, is.) Kelly, E.—The Unemployables. 1907. Rawlinson, Sir R.—Public Works in Lancashire for the Relief of Distress, 1863-6. 1908. ScHLOSS, D. F.—Insurance against Unemploy- ment. (1909. King. 3s. 6d.) SuTHERS, R. B.—My Right to Work. (1906. Clarion, is.) Taylor, Isabel.—A Bibliography of Unemploy- ment and the Unemployed. (1909. King. IS. 6d.) Wood, G. H., and Miss E. F. Rathbone.—Re- port of Inquiry on the Conditions of Labour at the Liverpool Docks. 1904. Board of Trade.—Fluctuations in Employment in the United Kingdom and certain Foreign Countries. 1904. Cd. 2337. Board of Trade.—Report on Agencies for Deal- ing with the Unemployed. 1893. Cd. 7182. Central (Unemployed) Body for London.—Re- ports. (King.) Charity Organisation Society. — Report of Special Committee on Unskilled Labour. 1905. London County Council.—Report by Medical Officer on Homeless Persons. 1907. Poor Law Co.mmission.—Minority Report : Part II. 1908. Squire, Miss R. E.,and A. B. Steel-Maitland.— Report to Poor Law Commission on The Relation of Industrial and Sanitary Condi- tions to Pauperism. 1909. Cd. 4653. Jackson, Cyril, and Rev. J. C. Pringle.—Report to Poor Law Commission on The Effects of Employment or Assistance given to the Un- employed since 1886 as a Means of Relieving Distress outside the Poor Law. 1909. Cd. 4795- Congres International des Assurance Sociales. —Rapports. L’assurance contre le Ch6mage involontaire. igo8. Conference Internationale du Chomage.—■ (Paris. Sept., 1910.] Rapports.