Reel 9

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Central and local government reports, pamphlets and papers of the London Central (Unemployed) Body for London relating to the causes and incidence of unemployment in the United Kingdom and its cure including labour exchanges, benefits and relief. The collection is particularly rich in London material. v. 1.Reports, 1886-1909, (reel 1) -- v. 2.Unemployment : Liverpool. etc., 1894-1908, (reel 2) -- v. 3.Unemployment : Oxford. etc., 1897-1909, (reel 2) -- v. 4.Unemployment, etc.,...

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London: Central (Unemployed) Body for London. Minutes of proceedings from 6th December 1907 to 16th October 1908. Vol. III and Index.

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United Kingdom. Unemployed Workmen Act, 1905. Return as to the proceedings of Distress Committees in England and Wales (and of the Central (Unemployed) Body for London) under the Unemployed Workmen Act, 1905, during the years ended March: - 1906 (1907 = 392). 1907 (1907 = 326). 1908 (1908 = 173). 1909 (1909 = 276). 1910 (1910 = 268). 1911 (1911 = 280). 1912 (1912 = 280). 1913 (1913 = 234). 1914 (1914 = 444).

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United Kingdom. Scotland. Unemployed Workmen Act, 1905. Report by the Local Government Board for Scotland as to the proceedings of Distress Committees in Scotland for the years ended May: - 1906 (Cd. 3431). 1907 (Cd. 3830). 1908 (Cd. 4478). 1909 (Cd. 4846). 1910 (Cd. 5409). 1911 (Cd. 5912). 1912 (Cd. 6501). 1913 (Cd. 7127).

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United Kingdom. Unemployed Relief (Work) (London). Return showing in respect of the Common Council of the City of London, and each of the Metropolitan Borough Councils, the amount expended in wages for work undertaken specially for the purpose of providing work for unemployed workmen during the six months ending on the 31st day of March 1905, (etc.).

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United Kingdom. Unemployed Workmen Bill. A Bill to establish organisation with a view to the provision of employment or assistance for Unemployed Workmen in proper cases ... 1905. [Bill 186].

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[United Kingdom. Vagrancy Bill, 1904. See Vol. X, item 6].

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United Kingdom. Labour Exchanges Bill. A Bill intituled an Act to provide for the establishment of Labour Exchanges and for other purposes incidental thereto ... 1909. (128).

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United Kingdom. Prevention of Unemployment Bill. A Bill to establish a Minister of Labour to make provision for the Prevention of Unemployment, to provide for the proper treatment of unemployed person, and for other purposes connected therewith ... 1914. [Bill 127].

Scope and Contents Miscellaneous papers as to unemployed relief: a. Home Arts and Industries Association: the unemployed: self-improvement as relief work. 1906. b. Crowder (A.G.). Suggestions for dealing with distress in London caused by lack of employment. c. Mansion House Conference on the Condition of the Unemployed. Sub-Committee on Agricultural Colonies, etc. proposals ... by Herbert V. Mills. 1887. d. Mansion House Conference on the Condition of the Unemployed. Sub-Committee on Agricultural Colonies,...