The problem of the unemployed. Anonymous. It demonstrates with mathematical certainty the cause of dull times and involuntary idleness. It shows why improvements in labor-saving machinery fail to increase wages and lessen the intensity of the struggle for existence. It points to the remedy; a remedy beneficial alike to employer and employee; a remedy which could be adopted without confiscating private property or even impairing its selling value ..
An economic tract on unemployment, labor-saving machinery and land reform by Henry Franklin Ring, issued in Houston, Texas in 1915 for a general American readership of employers and workers. The plates are halftone bust portraits of middle-aged businessmen and civic figures in dark suits, high collars and bow ties, useful as period vignette headshots, oval frames, and soft gradient backgrounds.
