Throughout the entire period covered by this collection, in order to receive assistance when unemployed (whether through the Poor Law or government public works or unemployment insurance), people (men, most often) had to have a positive relationship to paid employment. This is the subject of Proposed Solutions to Unemployment. In "Back to the Land and Labour Colonies," the sources explore various efforts to train urban unemployed men in agricultural work. Similarly, "Emigration and Empire" looks at the ways that private societies and local and central government bodies promoted emigration schemes to send unemployed men to colonies that could use their work. "The Right to Work" changes perspective, focusing on the demands of labour and unemployed groups who made arguments that unemployed men should be given work or maintained at a level that equalled their pay. The collection finishes with "The Unemployed Workman’s Act and Unemployment Insurance," which shows that even with the promise of national government action, the moralizing language of blaming the unemployed for their condition remained.
Author(s): Marjorie Levine-Clark
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 438
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
General introduction
Volume 4 Introduction
Part 1 Emigration and Empire
1 Anon., ‘Useful Caution to Emigrants’ (November 1833)
2 J. Crawford, Employment for the Million; or, Emigration and Colonization on a National or Extended Scale, the Remedy for National Distress, in a Letter Addressed to Her Majesty’s Ministers (1842)
3 E. Jones, Evenings with the People – The Unemployed, an Address. The Great Smithfield Meeting. A Reply to the “Times” and to Minor Opponents and an Insight into the Prospects of Emigrants in our Colonies and the United States (1857)
4 Indentured labour and the loss of employment in the West Indies in the 1860s
4.1 Letter regarding the movement of Chinese labourers from Cuba to Jamaica, 6 August 1861
4.2 Letters regarding indentured Indian ‘coolie’ labourers unable to find employment, Grenada, 1866
5 R. A. Arnold, Plan for the Temporary Employment of Operatives and Workmen in Casual Distress (1868)
6 National Emigration Aid Society, Facts Respecting Our Unemployed Able-Bodied Poor: And the Great Advantages Which Emigration to British Colonies Would Confer, Both by Immensely Improving Their Condition as Well as Increasing Trade and Reducing the Poor’s Rate (1869)
7 Anon., ‘England’s Unemployed’, c. 1870
8 H. L. Hastings, Hints on Emigration: An Address to a Company of the London Unemployed (1882)
9 W. Hazell, A Social Experiment: Being an Account of the Working of Bird Green Test Farm for the Unemployed, 1891–1894 (1895)
10 East End Emigration Fund, Annual Report, 1899
11 H. L. Humphreys, ‘Emigration’, in County Borough of West Ham Distress Committee, Third Annual Report and Secretary’s General Review, 1905–8 (1908)
12 G. A. Williamson, Report to the Central (Unemployed) Body for London on Visit to Australia and New Zealand (1911)
Part 2 Domestic labour colonies
13 H. V. Mills, ‘The Problem Stated’ and ‘Co-operative Estates: The Remedy’, in Poverty and the State, or Work for the Unemployed (1886)
14 A. E. Petrie, Labour and Independence or Profitable Work for Those in Need of It (1887)
15 S. A. Barnett, ‘A Scheme for the Unemployed’ (1888)
16 H. E. Moore, ‘The Unemployed and the Land’ (1893)
17 H. V. Mills, ‘The Colony at Starnthwarte’, in J. Hobson (ed), Cooperative Labour upon the Land, and Other Papers (1895)
18 E. H. Kerwin, A Labour Colony in Working Order (1895)
19 Letter from George Ranking, member of the Charity Organisation Society, regarding labour colonies, 1905
20 ‘Speech by Mr. Fels’, in Report of Conference on the Problem of Unemployment Held in the County Hotel, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Wednesday 1st February, 1905 (1905)
21 H. Brown, City of Leeds, Unemployed Workmen Act, 1905: Report of Sub-committee as to Farms and Labour Colonies (1905)
22 Central Unemployed Committee, Minutes of Hollesley Bay Rota Committee (1906)
23 H. L. Humphreys, ‘Farm Colony’, in County Borough of West Ham Distress Committee, Third Annual Report and Secretary’s General Review, 1905–8 (1908)
24 W. Booth, ‘Vagrants: A Proposal’, in The Vagrant and the Unemployable: A Proposal Whereby Vagrants May Be Detained under Suitable Conditions and Compelled to Work (1909)
Part 3 The intervention of the state
25 H. R. Smart, The Right to Work (1895)
26 G. C. T. Bartley, London and the Unemployed Problem (To the Editor of the Times) (1905)
27 Trades Union Congress, Report of Deputation to the Rt. Hon. A.J. Balfour, M.P., February 7th, 1905, on ‘Unemployment,’ and Mr. Balfour’s Reply (1905)
28 J. K. Hardie, John Bull and His Unemployed: A Plain Statement on the Law of England as It Affects the Unemployed (1905)
29 A. M. Humphry, The Unemployed Workmen Act as Administered during the Winter of 1905–1906, A Paper Read at a Meeting of the Poor Law Workers’ Society (1906)
30 County of Birkenhead, Birkenhead Distress Committee, Report of the Distress Committee for the Period Ended 29th September 1906 (1906)
31 City of Edinburgh, ‘Unemployed Workmen Act 1905’, in Distress Committee for the City of Edinburgh & Report for the Local Board for Scotland, 1905–1907 (1907)
32 Women’s unemployment and the state
32.1 ‘Women’s Work Committee’, in Preliminary Report upon the Work of the Central (Unemployed) Body of London (Unemployed Workmen Act, 1905) to May 12th, 1906
32.2 Central (Unemployed) Body, Women’s Work Committee Minute Book
32.3 L. W. Papworth and M. E. MacDonald, Report of the National Conference on the Unemployment of Women Dependent on Their Own Earnings
33 H. L. Humphreys, ‘Employment Exchanges’, in County Borough of West Ham Distress Committee (1908)
34 J. R. MacDonald, The New Unemployed Bill of the Labour Party (1907)
35 G. Lansbury, ‘Unemployment’ (July 1907)
36 David Lloyd George, introduction of unemployment insurance to Parliament (4 May 1911)
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