Report upon employment and unemployment in the state of New South Wales / issued by J.M. Dunningham, Minister for Labour and Industry

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New South Wales. Department of Labour and Industry. Committee to Investigate and Report Upon Unemployment
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Sydney : David Harold Paisley, Government Printer, 1937
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REPORT UPON Employment and Unemployment IN THE STATE OF New South Wales. 5
REPORT UPON Employment and Unemployment IN THE STATE OF New South Wales. 7
FOREWORD. 9
CONTENTS OF REPORT. 11
Report upon Employment and Unemployment in the State of New South Wales. 13
COMMITTEE. 14
REFERENCES TO THE COMMITTEE. 14
SOURCES OF DATA. 14
CENSUS AND OTHER OFFICIAL STATISTICS. 15
CENSUS RECORDS. 15
AGE, CONJUGAL CONDITION, AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN OF UNEMPLOYED—CENSUS 1933. 16
EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT AT CENSUS 1933. 16
DURATION OF UNEMPLOYMENT—CENSUS 1933. 17
Causes of Unemployment. 18
INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION OF THE WAGE EARNING GROUP, CENSUS OF 1933. 20
EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT IN INDUSTRIES, CENSUS 1933. 21
RURAL INDUSTRIES. 22
TREND OF EMPLOYMENT IN THE VARIOUS INDUSTRIES. 22
MANUFACTURING. 24
MINING. 24
PUBLIC WORKS. 28
TRANSPORT. 28
RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT, PENSIONS, ETC. 29
Wages in Industry. 29
FAMILY ENDOWMENT. 30
ALLOWANCES FOR CHILDREN UNDER CHILD WELFARE ACT. 32
WIDOWS’ PENSIONS 32
INVALID AND OLD AGE PENSIONS. 33
STATE LABOUR EXCHANGES. 33
MEN REGISTERED AT LABOUR EXCHANGES. 34
Relief of Unemployment. 35
RELIEF WORKS. 35
FOOD RELIEF. 41
ISSUES OF CLOTHING TO UNEMPLOYED PERSONS. 44
HOUSING OF THE UNEMPLOYED. 45
TAXATION FOR RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT. 45
GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE ON RELIEF. 46
WITHDRAWAL OF EMERGENCY RELIEF WORK—NUMBER OF PERSONS UNSUITABLE FOR EMPLOYMENT. 47
UNEMPLOYMENT SURVEY. 48
UNEMPLOYMENT SURVEY, 1936. NEW SOUTH WALES. 52
UNEMPLOYMENT SURVEY, 1936. NEW SOUTH WALES. 68
UNEMPLOYMENT SURVEY, 1936. NEW SOUTH WALES. 70
UNEMPLOYMENT SURVEY, 1936. NEW SOUTH WALES. 73
SUMMARY. 75
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 78

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