Another Antedating of "Unemployment"

[Fred Shapiro]

unemployment (OED 1888)

1845 _Quarterly Review_ Dec. 321 (Periodicals Archive Online)  A system
... which in its result would reduce nine-tenths of the manufacturers of
England to downright unemployment and starvation.

Fred Shapiro


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