Re: [Pen-l] worse or better than 1982?

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

 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

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