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Canada's Unemployment Problem. Edited by L. Richter. Articles by: H. M. Cassidy, W. L. Jacobson, W. M. Jones, Dorothy King, A. MacNamara, L. Richter, S. A. Saunders, H. A. Weir, Charlotte Whitton. Foreword by the Hon. Norman McL. Rogers. (Studies of the Institute of Public Affairs at Dalhousie University.) Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada. 1939. Pp. xvi, 414. ($2.50) - Wasted Manpower: The Challenge of Unemployment. By Corrington Gill. New York: W. W. Norton and Company. 1939. Pp. 312. ($3.00) - Planning and Administration of Unemployment Compensation in the United States: A Sampling of Beginnings. By Bryce M. Stewart. Field studies by Herman Feldman, Natalie F. Jaros, Don D. Lescohier, Eleanor H. Park, and Helen H. Ringe. New York: Industrial Relations Counselors Inc. 1938. Pp. xiv, 665. - Public Employment Service in the United States. By Raymond C. Atkinson, Louise C. Odencrantz, and Ben Deming. (Socíal Science Research Council; Studies in Administration, vol. V.) Chicago: Public Administration Service. 1938. Pp. xiv, 482. ($3.75) - Social Insurance Coordination: An Analysis of German and British Organization. By C. A. Kulp. (A Report Prepared for the Committee on Social Security.) Washington: Social Science Research Council. 1938. Pp. xiv, 333. ($2.50)
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- Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science/Revue canadienne de economiques et science politique , Volume 6 , Issue 4 , November 1940 , pp. 621 - 629
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- Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association 1940
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1 On one detail of administrative technique, not dealt with in either report, a helpful bulletin has recently been issued by the Committee on Social Security of the [U.S.] Social Science Research Council: Methods of Clearance between Unemployment Compensation and Relief Agencies (Pamphlet series, no. 3, Washington, 1940).Google Scholar
2 The one caveat that may be entered is that a writer dealing with the United States can free his discussion of international complications, both material and financial, more easily than one dealing with a European, or with the Canadian, situation.
3 Cf., e.g., Marsh, L. C., Canadians In and Out of Work (Toronto, 1940), pp. 364–5.Google Scholar
4 The earlier British example is Cohen, J. L., Social Insurance Unified (London, 1924).Google Scholar This puts forward a plan for the co-ordination of all British social services, but devotes less space to administrative policy than Dr. Kulp's study above.
5 Cogent reasons are also given for excluding dependents' allowances, but space does not permit their examination here. The allowances embodied in the 1940 Act appear to be a compromise, and one worthy of trial.
6 See, e.g., Seymour, J. B., The British Employment Exchange (London, 1934), chaps, V, XVII.Google Scholar
7 One element in this, the resistance of the civil service to fundamental changes, he claims to be so strong in Germany as even to have resisted the Gleichgeschaltung after 1933. Most of the necessary qualifications are added in the context; but this is a light which is infrequently cast on the special nature of the German bureaucracy.