Men without Work

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Introduction
• Part I. Facts and Figures:
• 1. The aims of the study
• 2. Long unemployment before the slump
• 3. Depression and recovery
• 4. The sample introduced
• Part II. The Sample Study: A. Unemployment in the six towns
• B. The long unemployed
• 1. Physical problems: the background of poverty
• 2. Psychological problems: attitude towards unemployment
• 3. Moral problems: the sense of independence and respectability
• Part III. Particular Issues:
• 1. The wage problem
• 2. The older men
• 3. The younger men
• Part IV. Unemployment among Women:
• 1. General issues
• 2. Blackburn
• 3. Liverpool: a problem of employability
• 4. The voluntary agencies and the women's problem
• Part V. The Social Service Movement:
• 1. General problems of the clubs
• 2. The clubs and their members in the six towns: the residential centres
• 3. Special schemes
• 4. The future
• Appendix 1. Residual and industrial unemployment
• Appendix 2. The case record card
• Appendix 3. The state agencies and the long unemployed
• Appendix 4. Money requirements of the 'George' poverty standard
• Appendix 5. Statistical tables
• Index.
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