The Migratory Casual Worker

Author : John Nye Webb
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331870015
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Migratory-Casual Worker (Classic Reprint) written by John Nye Webb and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Migratory-Casual Worker The explanation of this fact is partly economic and partly per sonal. A substantial portion of the occupations followed by the migratory-casual worker continued to provide some employment throughout the depression. The experienced migrant knew where and when he was most likely to find a job in the grain and fruit harvests, logging operations, shipping, road construction and main tenance, and other seasonal activities; and he continued to migrate to those places even though he knew the pay would be less than in previous years. This knowledge, plus a strong personal antipathy to being found in soup lines, helps to explain why the confirmed migratory-casual worker kept out of transient bureaus except for occasional overnight stops or an unusually bad run of luck in finding employment. The fact that the confirmed migratory-casual worker did obtain assistance from the Transient Relief Program makes this report possible. The 13 cities 4 which served as the sources of information for the study of the transient unemployed included the country's most important centers for migratory-casual workers. During the first half of 1935, careful records were made of the work histories and itineraries of migratory-casual workers registered for relief in the transient bureaus of these 13 cities. Some of the records taken were unsuited for study because the worker either could not, or would not, give a complete account of his employment and itinerary during 1933 and 1934. Other records were excluded because the worker supplying the information was on the margin between the temporary and the habitual migrant. Still a third type of record could not be used because the worker had obviously either deliberately mis stated his history - a not uncommon occurrence in the experience of the Transient Relief Program - or had drawn too freely upon his imagination. 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.