The Great Migration
The following audio clip is excerpted from the BackStory episode “Looking for Work: A History of Unemployment.” You can listen to the entire episode here. William Brown moved north from Jacksonville, FL, during the Great Migration. He describes what happened when he asked a Philadelphia real estate agent for a job. Discussion of challenges for [...]
Measuring Unemployment
The following audio clip is excerpted from the BackStory episode “Looking for Work: A History of Unemployment.” You can listen to the entire episode here. Historian Alexander Keyssar explains how the unemployed were counted and uncounted–acknowledged and unacknowledged–in the 19th and 20th centuries. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Excerpted from: Looking for Work: [...]
Looking for Work: A History of Unemployment
With unemployment at its highest level in 25 years, we’re taking on the history of Americans between jobs. When did the concept of “unemployment” arise in the first place? Are people more or less attached to their jobs than they used to be?
