This book describes the beginning and development of unemployment reform until the New Deal. As a consequence of large scale industrialization after the Civil War, joblessness could no longer be understood to be caused by a character defect, but had to be ascribed to societal forces. It became clear to the concerned that traditional remedial measures could not adequately cope with the problem. By the time of the entry of the United States into World War I reformist thinking had devised the major instruments that were later employed in dealing with unemployment. After the war and during most of the 1920s these instruments underwent thorough examination and refinement, and the early years of the Great Depression saw their tentative use. At the eve of the New Deal a well reasoned and experimentally tried group of social instruments was available. The book essentially refutes a social control explanation for this process and stresses the progressive motivation of the reformers involved.
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"Sautter's book is extremely sensitive to developing labor and business ideologies, uncovering Hoover's reaction to the demands of relief, detecting the effects of business cycles, and showing the infuence of scientific management. In the end, it covers most of the period in considerable depth, and the thesis that most New Deal labor-market policy was developed in this era is clearly proven." Symposium
"This study contains an impressively detailed account of the history of the United States Employment Service. It also succeeds in locating and spelling out the links between the efforts of the Hoover administration and the ideas of well-known Progressive Era reformers; in so doing, it contributes to our understanding of the trajectory of unemployment reform from the early twentieth century to the New Deal." The Journal of American History
"Captive to the concerns and perspectives of the early twentieth century, reformers provided at best partial answers to the problem of unemployment. Sautter has written a comprehensive guide to their limited agenda. His work is essential to anyone who hopes to understand the intriguing relationship between unemployment and government in the twentieth century." American Historical Review
"Sautter's main goal is to trace reformers' attempts to get legislation enacted that would either lessen the likelihood of unemployment occurring or alleviate its impact...The book's contribution lies in the thoroughness of its research...The book represents the culmination of years of massive research...anyone desiring to research material on unemployment reform will need to consult this book." Reviews in American History
"Udo Sautter's new study therefore comes as a timely and welcome addition to an otherwise sparse literature." Times Higher Education Supplement
Sautter's book is extremely sensitive to developing labor and business ideologies, uncovering Hoover's reactions to the demands of relief, detecting the effects of business cycles, and showing the influence of scientific management. In the end, it covers most of the period in considerable depth, and the thesis that most New Deal labor-market policy was developed in this era is clearly proven." Thomas Janoski, Contemporary Sociology
"Udo Sautter's Three Cheers for the Unemployed, then, an impressively researched and very well written analysis fills an important gap in American History--and fills it very well indeed." American Journal of Sociology
"The historical research is impeccable and Three Cheers for the Unemployed is a distinguished study." Desmond King, Journal of Policy History
"This study contains an impressively detailed account of the history of the United States Employment Service. It also succeeds in locating and spelling out the links between the efforts of the Hoover administration and the ideas of well-known Progressive Era reformers; in so doing, it contributes to our understanding of the trajectory of unemployment reform from the early twentieth century to the New Deal." The Journal of American History
"Captive to the concerns and perspectives of the early twentieth century, reformers provided at best partial answers to the problem of unemployment. Sautter has written a comprehensive guide to their limited agenda. His work is essential to anyone who hopes to understand the intriguing relationship between unemployment and government in the twentieth century." American Historical Review
"Sautter's main goal is to trace reformers' attempts to get legislation enacted that would either lessen the likelihood of unemployment occurring or alleviate its impact...The book's contribution lies in the thoroughness of its research...The book represents the culmination of years of massive research...anyone desiring to research material on unemployment reform will need to consult this book." Reviews in American History
"Udo Sautter's new study therefore comes as a timely and welcome addition to an otherwise sparse literature." Times Higher Education Supplement
Sautter's book is extremely sensitive to developing labor and business ideologies, uncovering Hoover's reactions to the demands of relief, detecting the effects of business cycles, and showing the influence of scientific management. In the end, it covers most of the period in considerable depth, and the thesis that most New Deal labor-market policy was developed in this era is clearly proven." Thomas Janoski, Contemporary Sociology
"Udo Sautter's Three Cheers for the Unemployed, then, an impressively researched and very well written analysis fills an important gap in American History--and fills it very well indeed." American Journal of Sociology
"The historical research is impeccable and Three Cheers for the Unemployed is a distinguished study." Desmond King, Journal of Policy History
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On the eve of the New Deal, a well-reasoned and successfully tested group of social programs was available. This book essentially refutes a social-control explanation for this process. It demonstrates that the unemployment measures of the New Deal emanated from the reformist endeavors of the Progressive Age.
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This is a book about some of the cheers that American society gave on behalf of the unemployed in the two generations straddling the turn of the twentieth century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
free public employment offices, public works tool, national employment bureau, unemployment reformers, prosperity reserve, unemployment action, public employment exchanges, free employment offices, public employment bureaus, unemployment commission, governmental exchanges, unemployment conference, federal employment service, unemployment insurance legislation, unemployment census, public works planning, public works activities, public employment agencies, national employment service, unemployment committee, compulsory unemployment insurance, public works policy, public employment service, hearings pursuant, unemployment question Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Annual Report, New Deal, President's Conference, Business Cycles, Biennial Report, Commerce Papers, Great Depression, Wagner Papers, Legislative Notes, Secretary Wilson, Rhode Island, Russell Sage Foundation, University of Chicago Press, Final Report, Van Kleeck, American Federationist, Herbert Hoover, Legislative Files, National Industrial Conference Board, Recent Economic Changes, Bureau of the Census, Chamber of Commerce, American Statistical Association, New Republic New!
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free public employment offices, public works tool, national employment bureau, unemployment reformers, prosperity reserve, unemployment action, public employment exchanges, free employment offices, public employment bureaus, unemployment commission, governmental exchanges, unemployment conference, federal employment service, unemployment insurance legislation, unemployment census, public works planning, public works activities, public employment agencies, national employment service, unemployment committee, compulsory unemployment insurance, public works policy, public employment service, hearings pursuant, unemployment question Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Annual Report, New Deal, President's Conference, Business Cycles, Biennial Report, Commerce Papers, Great Depression, Wagner Papers, Legislative Notes, Secretary Wilson, Rhode Island, Russell Sage Foundation, University of Chicago Press, Final Report, Van Kleeck, American Federationist, Herbert Hoover, Legislative Files, National Industrial Conference Board, Recent Economic Changes, Bureau of the Census, Chamber of Commerce, American Statistical Association, New Republic New!
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