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K的成果之一:失业的严重程度The unemployment rates that Keyssar calculates appear to be relatively modest, at least by Great Depression*5 standards(比大萧条轻,暗含一个强对比,可能会出取非题,问大萧条的失业率如何): during the worst years, in the 1870’s and 1890’s*4A, unemployment was around 15 percent. Yet Keyssar rightly( ) understands that a better way*4B to measure the impact of unemployment is to calculate unemployment frequencies—(新名词解释一定要看)measuring the percentage of workers who experience any unemployment in the course of (in the course of: adv.在...期间) a year. Given this perspective, joblessness looms隐约呈现 much larger(loom与large搭配,指坏事的隐约呈现).
Keyssar also另一个研究成果:影响事业的因素 scrutinizes unemployment patterns according to skill level, ethnicity, race, age, class, and gender. He finds that rates of joblessness differed primarily(最主要的因素) according to 因素一class*6(往下暂时不用看): those in middle-class and white-collar occupations were far less likely to be unemployed. Yet(还有更重要的因素) the impact of unemployment on a specific class was not always the same. Even when dependent on the same trade行业, adjoining 因素二communities*6相邻地区 could have dramatically different unemployment rates. (还在说地理问题)Keyssar uses these differential rates to help explain a phenomenon that has puzzled historians—the startlingly high rate of geographical mobility in the nineteenth-century United States. But(转折) mobility was not the dominant working-class strategy for coping with unemployment, nor was assistance from private charities or state agencies. Self-help自己雇用自己 and the help of kin got most workers through jobless spells一段时间.
总结和评价While Keyssar might have(虚拟,与事实相反)(小-) spent more time developing the implications of his findings on joblessness for contemporary public policy, his study, in its thorough(大 ) research and creative(大 ) use of quantitative and qualitative evidence, is a model(大 ) of historical analysis.
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