Antedating of "Unemployment"
Fred Shapiro
fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Mon Nov 6 20:23:29 UTC 2006
unemployment (OED 1888)
1875 _Inter Ocean_ 24 Sept. 3/6 (19th Century U.S. Periodicals) Loss
would follow; hence the locking up of money and the unemployment of labor
and consequent distress among the laboring classes.
Fred Shapiro
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