Report Of The Ontario Commission On Unemployment

Excerpt from Report of the Ontario Commission on Unemployment, 1916 In the absence of statistical information regarding unemployment in Ontario, which has been one of its chief difficulties, the Commission was compelled to conduct its own investigations. These may be described under five heads. 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.

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Excerpt from Ontario Commission on Unemployment Interim Report, July 20th, 1915 The Ontario Commission on Unemployment have unanimously agreed that some form of public employment office should be established by the State to replace the system now in operation in' Ontario, which is in urgent need of being modernized and made efficient. The Organization of industry is now so far-reaching and the demand for labour so fluctuating that the individual workman, however able, willing and skilled he may be, may not succeed in finding employment at the work he can do best, although employment might be available if the labour market were pro perly organized. It is evident that the worker should not be required longer to bear the bur-den of finding a job by his own unaided efforts. Immigrants trained in agriculture come into the cities and towns with the raw material of common labour. An increasing number of women seek industrial employment, but for the most part without direction. What has been done to regulate the labour market, or to gain real knowledge concerning it, has been sporadic and inadequate. 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.

This final report of the Commission presents its findings and recommendationsrelated to manpower policy in Newfoundland. It includes socio-economicconsiderations of employment and unemployment trends.