Unemployment has to vary considerably in meaning over time. In the 1930s a much larger proportion of the population lived on farms or in small towns (where many would be relatives of local farmers). And before WW2 many more farmers still raised a portion of their own food. We lived with my grandfather in much of the '40s while my father was in a TB san. A good deal of the food we ate was produced by him: potatoes, beans, porka (salted), fruit (fresh and canned), (he was a fruit farmer in southwestern Michigan). There are probably other variations, some of which would intensify, some ameliorate, the effects of unemployment or under employment.
I don't suppose statistics are available on proportion of households in which all members are unemployed. Carrol _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
