International Marxist Group Archive

Magazines, bulletins and booklets of the IMG and its forerunners, 1961–1984

More American workers sacked because of unemployment

The Week Vol. 1, No. 4, 22 January 1964 · p. 10 of the scan · 100 words

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The Economist of January 18 reviewed an article in the iugust issue of | Monthly La Labour Review - "Job mobility in 1961", Among the interesting facts which omerged were the following:

",..The greatest difference lay in the reasons for changing jobs; In 1961 almost exactly as many people left jobs because they were dismissed as left them to better themselves; in 1955 the large majority of shifts were made to find a better job,.e-.0bviously, a high rate of unemployment freezes people in their work, though only a quarter of those who experienced unemployment had to accept lower paying jobse.o™

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