"Unemployment" origin wrong in today's WALL STREET JOURNAL

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   The newspapers say something about a word origin.  It's ridiculously wrong.  I write in to give scholarship away for free.  There's no correction.  We've seen it all before.."Jazz" has still not been corrected in the NEW YORK SUN.  I guess we missed all those pre-Civil War citations.
   Today, it's "unemployment" in the WALL STREET JOURNAL, 3 December 2003, pg. D1, col. 1:

   THERE HAVE ALWAYS been people who couldn't work.  But until the late 19th century, the word "unemployment" didn't exist.
(...)
   The financial panic of 1873 put a brutal end to this golden age.  In the next few years thousands of businesses failed, and the word "unemployed" was assigned a new definition.  In an 1873 Massachusetts census, the word referred to anyone without an occupation, which included, for example, children under the age of 10.


   We'll take a quick look at Literature Online.  There should be nothing before 1873--but there is.

(UNEMPLOYED)
1. Baker, Daniel, 1653 or 4-1723 [Author Record]
Judith. 21Kb, [from Poems upon Several Occasions (1697)]
Found 1 hit:
IX. 3Kb
...was their Joy secure, and unemploy'd,    But all quick Preparation make,...

2. Tate, Nahum, 1652-1715 [Author Record]
The third Eclogue.By the same. 9Kb, [from Poems by Several Hands and on Several Occasions : Collected by N. Tate (1685)]
Found 1 hit:
Celadon, Mopsus. 9Kb
...I know you were not unemploy'd so long; Then tell me,...

3. Wesley, Samuel, 1662-1735 [Author Record]
MARLBOROUGH, OR, THE Fate of EUROPE. 50Kb, [from Marlborough (1705)]
Found 1 hit:
...Germany ! Nor were they unemploy'd ; nor wou'd the Foe...

1. Dryden, John, 1631-1700 [Author Record]
Marriage a la mode (1673) 259Kb
MARRIAGE A-la-Mode. A COMEDY. As it is Acted at the THEATRE-ROYAL. 258Kb
Found 1 hit:
Main text 250Kb
ACT II. 45Kb
SCENE I. 45Kb
...here. There, he is lazy, unemploy'd, and slow; Here, he's more...

2. Manley, Mrs. (Mary de la Rivière), 1663-1724 [Author Record]
The royal mischief (1696) 158Kb
THE Royal Mischief. A TRAGEDY. 156Kb
Found 1 hit:
Main text 148Kb
ACT II. 31Kb
SCENE I. 31Kb
...And left the beauteous Circle unemploy'd; The little God gave new...


Poetry (3 entries, 3 hits)
Drama (2 entries, 2 hits)
Prose (0 entries, 0 hits)



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UNEMPLOYMENT)
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865 [Author Record]
Mary Barton (1849) 976Kb
Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life ... In Two Volumes ... Third Edition 974Kb
Found 1 hit:
VOL. I. 495Kb
CHAPTER XV. 31Kb
...present depression of trade, and unemployment of hands, there would be.



(MAKING OF AMERICA-MICHIGAN)
Author: Sprague, William, 1830-1915.

Title: The tax bill. Speech of William Sprague in the Senate of the United States April 8, 1869.

Publication date: 1869.

Collection: Making of America Books

Search results: 2 matches in full text
Page 29  - 2 terms matching "unemployment"
   This is going on at a rapid rate; and you see by the increase of importations--indicative of the unemployment of your people in manufactures, produced by the extortionate rates of interest established for your public securities--that the increase in the cost of your manufactures is so great that the tariff is becoming of no possible protection.  (...)
   Existing prices are starvation prices, because your people are in great numbers in the position of unemployment.


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