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Excerpt from How to Meet Hard Times: A Program for the Prevention and Relief of Abnormal Unemployment The present Mayor's Committee on Unemployment was appointed partly for the purpose of preparing against future unemployment crises. Its main endeavor, nevertheless, has been to deal constructively with unemployment generally by helping to increase the contact between the jobless man and woman and the employer seeking help, by tracing the causes of irregularity of employment and aiding employers in reducing the wastefulness which springs from a large labor turn-over and from the use of casual, irregularly employed and undependable labor. In these studies and efforts to improve employment methods, the Committee has become impressed with the close relation which the employ ment conditions of hard times bear to the general lack of system in stabil izing enterprise and making employment permanent. The special tendencies which in hard times dislocate employment on a large scale are aggravated by a normal insecurity in the hold upon the labor market which is shared by many thousands of our industrial workers. That insecurity is a constant source of anxiety in tens of thousands of homes; it produces incompetence and a lowering in the standard of life, Which, in certain occupations, assumes dangerous proportions. 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.