Antedating of "Unemployment"

[Fred Shapiro]

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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