Author : Edwin Hardin Sutherland
Release : 2013-09
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Unemployed and Public Employment Agencies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Unemployed and Public Employment Agencies write by Edwin Hardin Sutherland. This book was released on 2013-09. Unemployed and Public Employment Agencies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... agencies do not operate continuously in some.cases, and in many cases are merely a means of securing strike-breakers. As a class these agencies are limited in their activities to one community. Consequently they have failed to set up a central agency in which the entire labor market can find expression, but they have added to the series of distinct and non-co-operating agencies; they do not secure complete and continuous information in regard either to the demand for labor or the supply of labor in general or in any particular occupation or trade, or in any one community, to say nothing of wider territory. These various kinds of non-public employment agencies, therefore, have failed to organize the labor market in accordance with the ideal posited by the students of unemployment. They have set up distinct centers, for particular classes of employers or employes, with local, occupational, racial and other limitations, operating on a small scale, not at all commensurate with modern large-scale production. Between these centers there is little co-operation, and there seems to be no possibility of securing such co-operation, because of the various and conflicting purposes and ideals of those in control; consequently no one of these types of agencies can serve as a center into which the others can pour their surplus demands or supplies. None of these agencies is attempting to deal with the unemployment situation as a whole; all are interested in the unemployed individual. But instead of setting up a central agency, they are often in fierce competition which would make combined action impossible. The union agencies increase the unemployment of the persons not members; the agencies of employers' associations increase the unemployment of those...