Eugen Peter Schwiedland · 1911
Eugen Peter Schwiedland’s 1911 review of the second edition of W. H. Beveridge’s Unemployment: A Problem of Industry moves from praise of its accessibility and scholarly grounding to a concise account of its proposed remedies.
Ein lesenswertes und auch lesbar geschriebenes Buch.
English translation: A book worth reading and also readably written.
Schwiedland notes Beveridge’s three years on London’s official committee for assisting the unemployed. Practical experience accompanies scholarly preparation. The central proposal combines German-style employment exchanges with the stabilization of casual workers’ employment. Exchanges would give selected workers preferential access to jobs, securing their regular use while leaving others without work.
Der anderen, die nun ganz leer ausgingen, hätten sich Arbeitskolonien, Uebungswerkstätten zur Erhöhung ihrer Fähigkeiten, eigene Arbeitsstätten in Forsten oder eine sorgsam geleitete, namentlich nach Kanada gerichtete Auswanderungsbewegung anzunehmen.
English translation: The others, who now went away entirely empty-handed, would have to be taken in hand by labor colonies, by training workshops for raising their capacities, by workplaces of their own in forests, or by a carefully directed emigration movement aimed particularly at Canada.
This concluding sentence exposes the proposal’s distributive consequence: regular employment for some requires separate provision for those excluded. Training, special workplaces, and managed emigration supplement placement. The review’s significance lies in this compact account of unemployment policy as an institutional reorganization of irregular labor; Schwiedland offers a favorable opening judgment but no extended assessment of the remedies.
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