437 Pages
by
Routledge
438 Pages
by
Routledge
418 Pages
by
Routledge
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This classic study of the effect of unemployment and of the ways of relieving it upon actual, typical families of the 1930s and 1940s is a vivid, startling picture of the demoralizing influence and consequences of America's relief policies during the Depression years. The study comprises an incisive interpretation of the problem and a series of absorbing human interest stories of representative... Read more
Book One: Interpretation; Introduction; I: Before Relief; I: The Background of the Families; II: Married and Self-Supporting; II: The Interim Period; III: From Work to Relief; III: Relief; IV: Home Relief; V: Work Relief; VI: Living on Relief; VII: Thinking on Relief; IV: Re-Employability; VIII: In Search of a Job; V: Policy; IX: A Good System of Relief; X: One-Third of a Nation; Epilogue: The War; Appendix Method; Book Two: Case Studies; Introduction; I: Home Relief; Case One: Corey Family; Case Two: Becker Family; Case Three: Barton Family; II WPA; Case Four: Mahoney Family; Case Five: Berger Family; Case Six: Gunther Family; III: Closed to Private Employment; Case Seven: Clancy Family; Case Eight: Wallach Family; Case Nine: Caldwell Family; IV: Private Employment; Case Ten: O’Leary Family; Case Eleven: Katz Family; Case Twelve: Parsons Family
Biography
Eli Ginzberg
