Analysis of Unwilling Idlers

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The following is an analytical book report on Baskerville and Saber's "Unwilling Idlers". The book offers a detailed analysis of unemployment in the late nineteenth century in Victorian Canada. It illustrates the impact of such unemployment on both the workers and their families. The book utilizes a high number of statistics to conclude there findings.

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"Peter Baskerville and Eric Sager's work, Unwilling Idlers: The Urban Unemployed and Their Families in Late Victorian Canada, was published by the University of Toronto Press in 1998. Printed in Toronto, Canada, the work spans over 193 pages, and includes up to 294 pages when all notes, appendixes and indexes are accounted for. The authors, both history professors at the University of Victoria have written a work of "social science history," in their attempt to study the impact of unemployment among both the workers and their families (Baskerville and Sager xiv). Baskerville and Sager's scholarly intentions are clearly noted in the introduction. The author's three main objectives were to: "provide a profile of the men and women who said they were unemployed; to assess by various measures the impact that unemployment had on their lives."

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