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Ten thousand out of work

Title
Ten thousand out of work / by Ewan Clague and Webster Powell.
Author
Clague, Ewan, 1896-1987.
Publication
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1933.

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Powell, Webster.
Description
xvii, 188 pages : charts, tables, and diagrams; 24 cm.
Summary
In the spring of 1931, the Community Council of Philadelphia began a number of studies of the records of the committee. The most comprehensive and the most accessible material seemed to lie in the field of work relief. Through the interest of the committee's Emergency Work Bureau unemployed men were employed as part of the program of work relief in securing from their fellow employees such facts about their work history and experience as might, when published, promote a better understanding of unemployment and what its treatment and prevention involve. Schedules were filled out for 8,722 persons who were employed at made-work. This was done under the general direction of Ewan Clague, Director of Research of the Community Council. Additional schedules from 1,439 persons who were applicants for work relief were obtained by Webster Powell, at first working as a graduate student of the University of Pennsylvania, and later as a member of the staff of the Community Council. In view of the similarity of the material and the complementary character of the research, the two studies were partially merged in order that a well-rounded picture might be presented.
Series Statement
Wharton School. Industrial Research Department. Research studies ; XXII
Uniform Title
Research studies (Wharton School. Industrial Research Department) ; 22.
Subject
  • Unemployed > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia
  • Families > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia
  • Home economics > Accounting
  • Depressions > 1929 > United States
  • Families
  • Home economics > Accounting
  • Unemployed
  • Werkloosheidsuitkeringen
  • Werklozen
  • Pennsylvania > Philadelphia
Genre/Form
  • technical reports.
  • Technical reports.
  • Rapports techniques.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes footnotes with bibliographical references, and index.
Contents
A study of 8,722 individuals placed at made-work, by Ewan Clague.--A study of financial resources in the families of 1,439 applicants for made-work, by Webster Powell.
LCCN
33016203
OCLC
  • ocm01375773
  • 1375773
  • SCSB-514440
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library