The Causes and Cures of Unemployment in the Great Depression

The Causes and Cures of Unemployment in the Great Depression The refrain, unemployed through no fault of their own, reverberated throughout the I930s, and echoes down even to present. It shifted the blame away from the victims of hardship, but its repetition over the years to make a political point has dulled historians' sensibilities to the social and economic history of the era. Among the thousands of studies on the I930s, there are few on the social history of unemployment or relief.1 Economists have fitted macroeconomic models to the