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The making of a category of economic understanding in Great Britain (1880–1931): ‘the unemployed’

Lagneau-Ymonet, Paul; Reynaud, Bénédicte (2020), The making of a category of economic understanding in Great Britain (1880–1931): ‘the unemployed’, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 44, 6, p. 1181-1196. 10.1093/cje/beaa018

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Article accepté pour publication ou publié
Date
2020
Journal name
Cambridge Journal of Economics
Volume
44
Number
6
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pages
1181-1196
Publication identifier
10.1093/cje/beaa018
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Author(s)
Lagneau-Ymonet, Paul
Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Sciences Sociales [IRISSO]
Reynaud, Bénédicte cc
Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Sciences Sociales [IRISSO]
Abstract (EN)
Evidence-based policy relies on measurement to trigger actions and to manage and evaluate programmes. Yet measurement requires classification: the making of categories of understanding that approximate or represent collective phenomena. In 1931, two decades after implementing the first compulsory unemployment benefits in 1911, the British Government began to carry out a census of out-of-work individuals. Why such an inversion, at odds with the exercise of rational-legal authority, and unlike to its French or German counterparts? To solve this puzzle, we document the making of ‘the unemployed’ as a category of scientific analysis and of public policy in nineteenth-century Great Britain. Our circumscribed contribution to the history of economic thought and methodology informs today’s controversies on the future of work, the weakening of wage labour through the rise in the number of part-time contracts and self-employed workers, as well as the rivalry between the welfare state and private charities with regard to providing impoverished people with some kind of relief.
Subjects / Keywords
Severance Pay; Plant Closings
JEL
J65 - Unemployment Insurance; Severance Pay; Plant Closings
J60 - General
J01 - Labor Economics: General

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