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Excerpt from The British System of Labor Exchanges Under the Labor Exchanges Apt of 1909, a complete national system Of employment bureaus was established for the whole of the United Kingdom. It was the first of the kind and resulted from an intensive study of the problem of unemployment, both private and official, during and after a number of exceptionally severe trade de pressions and more especially from a unanimous recommendation of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress, 1905 to 1909. It is administered by the national Board of Trade through a department Created for that purpose, of which Mr. W. H. Beveridge, one of the foremost authorities on the organization of the labor market, is the director. 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.