Bulletins of the Employment Stabilization Research Institute

The Bulletins of the Employment Stabilization Research Institute were published from 1931 until 1934. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.The Employment Stabilization Research Institute was established at the University of Minnesota during the first years of the Great Depression to make an intensive study of the causes of unemployment, its effects upon individuals and institutions, the vocational aptitudes of a large group of unemployed, and the possibilities for re-educating and re-training those who are ill adjusted economically. The findings of the Institute, which gained international recognition, are embodied in some fifty published bulletins and articles. The two monographic volumes Balancing the Economic Controls and Men, Women, and Jobs summarize these studies for the general reader and constitute the final report of the Institute. They deal respectively with the economic and human aspects of the unemployment problem.This collection comprises Volume I of the Institute's bulletin series. Topics include: The Minnesota Unemployment Research Project; Employment Trends in St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Duluth (including a Monthly Employment Data supplement); The Duluth Casual Labor Group; Business Fluctuations in the Northwest; The Decline of Employment in the 1930-1931 Depression in St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Duluth; An Analysis of Three Unemployment Surveys in Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Duluth; and Operating Results of Manufacturing Plants in Minnesota, 1926-1930.