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Over the last quarter century Britain has seen more of its people become unemployed than join those in work.
‘Life without industry is guilt.’—John Ruskin (1870)
‘It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.’—Jerome K. Jerome (1889)
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© 1989 Robbie Gilbert
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Gilbert, R. (1989). Unemployment. In: Employment in the 1990s. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19726-2_3
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