Abstract

Behind the statistics gMh '~Fll~F!!ge VOL, IX, NO , 6 • MARCH, 1961 by NEIL W. CHAMBERLAIN • UNEMPLOYMENT is an ugly word, for 15 weeks or longer. Most of them were heads of families on short or had not yet experienced hardship, indefinite layoff from companies It is not now, as it was only a few where business was bad .) In 1958 decades ago, so directly associated but this is no test of the seriousness with hunger, disease and privation; of their situation. In our society to­ more than 14 million persons were day it is no longer the physical but unemployed at some time during the but it still brings with it insecurity, dependence, feelings of personal in­ the psychological impact of unem­ year. In the first 10 to II months of adequacy and frustration, The brave ployment which is most destructive, 1959 about 12 per cent of all family heads in the labor force had experi­ and the bluff seek to keep these At the end of 1960 some 500,000 ghosts under cover, but unemploy­ workers had been without a job for enced some spell of joblessness. This turnover among the unem­ ment insists on