Three Aspects of Insecurity of Employment

AN employee is normally and fundamentally insecure. He can be discharged at any time; no person or group is obliged to hire him; owning nothing on which he can work to live, he must work for others to gain a livelihood. This is the employee's basic insecurity. The owners of industry act on their power and the employee becomes unemployed. Vast numbers become periodically unemployed, as during the past year. Smaller numbers, but still a tragic total, become unemployed during years called prosperous, such as 1928. Long so serious, this first consequence of the fundamental, insecurity has almost monopolized the name. Finally, the condition of the unemployed once they have lost out also takes the name insecurity

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