The double enigma of unemployment in Great Britain, 1880-1931
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TexteLangue : français Détails de publication : 2018.
Ressources en ligne : Abrégé : A “classificatory fever” swept Europe in the late nineteenth century, not only for the classification of species in the natural sciences, but in the social sciences as well. Germany and France first respectively counted the number of unemployed nationwide in 1895 and 1896. But Great Britain rejected the idea in 1895, and indeed, the first commissioner of the Labour Department under the Bureau of Trade, Hubert Llewellyn Smith, was opposed to a survey of the unemployed. This article casts light on an enigmatic and hidden corner of the history of English statistics : how to account for this suspicion of quantifying the unemployed of Great Britain ?
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A “classificatory fever” swept Europe in the late nineteenth century, not only for the classification of species in the natural sciences, but in the social sciences as well. Germany and France first respectively counted the number of unemployed nationwide in 1895 and 1896. But Great Britain rejected the idea in 1895, and indeed, the first commissioner of the Labour Department under the Bureau of Trade, Hubert Llewellyn Smith, was opposed to a survey of the unemployed. This article casts light on an enigmatic and hidden corner of the history of English statistics : how to account for this suspicion of quantifying the unemployed of Great Britain ?
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