TY - BOOK AU - Hobson,John Atkinson TI - The problem of the unemployed: an enquiry and an economic policy T2 - Social questions of to-day PY - 1904/// CY - London PB - Methuen & co. KW - Unemployment N1 - Includes index; Cont.L Preface; 1. The Meaning of "Unemployment" 2. The Measure of Unemployment 3. Does Unemployment Grow? 4. Minor causes of Unemployment 5. The root cause of unemployment 6. The Economic Remedy 7. Bimetallism and Trade Depression 8. Palliatives of Unemployment N2 - This work considers the question of the unemployed at the height of imperialist capitalism. Hobson proposes a controversial theory of social progress, which argues that unemployment is a natural and necessary result of the mal-distribution of consumption power ER -