Excerpt from A Bibliography of Unemployment and the Unemployed The list here presented to the student, of nearly eight hundred books, reports, pamphlets and articles relating to the problem of Unemployment, is, of course, very far, alike in form and in content, from being a proper bibliography of the subject. It is, in fact, no more than a summary guide to the principal publications of the United Kingdom, and to some of those of France, Germany, Italy and the United States, for the most part within the last quarter of a century. The items referred to are not all to be found in any one library, not even in the magnificent collection of the British Museum, the courteous assistance of which institution is gratefully acknowledged. The greater number are in the British Library of Political Science, in connection with the London School of Economics and Political Science, where they are accessible not only to students of that institution, but also to any serious inquirer. The present list, prepared in the first instance for some members of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and on the Relief of Distress from Unemployment(1905-9), and revised for the use of the Research Department of the National Committee to Promote the Break Up of the Poor Law, is now placed at the disposal of a wider circle. Perhaps the most serious deficiency in the list is its lack of historical perspective. We are always apt to suppose that Unemployment is peculiarly a problem of to-day, and such a mistaken impression might easily be fostered by the incomplete character of the present list. To remove that impression it would be useful if some student would supplement Miss Taylor's work by compiling a corresponding list, which would be a lengthy one, of publications on Unemployment during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - to go no farther back into mediaeval darkness - and during the first three-quarters of the nineteenth century. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."