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This book, published in 1978, looks at how attitudes and perceptions of joblessness have changed; what economics and philosophers have written about the problem over the centuries; what public officials, heads of state, and politicians have said and done about unemployment; and …
"This important book by a major historian is the first to study how the problem of people out of work has been understood and dealt with in the Western world. Garraty discusses the ambivalent attitudes that people have always had toward work and how attitudes and perceptions hav…