Tenth Annual Report On The Public Employment Offices For The Year 1916 PDF Download

Excerpt from Tenth Annual Report on the Public Employment Offices: For the Year 1916 This report signalizes the passing of a full decade since the Commonwealth added to its already multifold social activities the function of undertaking to bring together those seeking em ployment and employers desiring help through the medium of public offices established for the purpose with a service which should be free to both classes of patrons. That in so doing it was animated by any direct consciousness that it was thereby contributing to a scientific solution of one of the greatest eco nomic problems of the time may be doubted, for the legislation was the result of a movement which appears to have been at the outset somewhat narrowly' propagandist, and to have drawn its strength almost entirely from a single group in the com munity, namely, the organized wage earners. But like many other social undertakings of similar origin which have been found, upon examination and experimentation, to reach down to the very foundations of democracy, the conviction has been widely growing that the enormous waste, both human and material, due to irregular and unsystematic employment, - for which the worker is in no wise to blame and of which the em ployer is too. Often the victim, while society as a whole pays the penalty in times of industrial depression, has created a problem with which the State alone can successfully cope. These ten years have witnessed a wonderful quickening of the social conscience, which has found expression in a multitude of laws and an expansion of State activity in the field of the gen eral Welfare, such as was only embodied a decade ago in the stuff that dreams are made of. 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.