Another Antedating of "Unemployment"
Fred Shapiro
fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Sat Feb 10 20:04:03 UTC 2007
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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