Principle and Practice of Direct Employment Policy to Relieve the Unemployed during the Interwar Period: Comparison of Japan with Western Countries

• Project/Area Number: 23530405
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Economic history
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: KASE Kazutoshi 東京大学, 社会科学研究所, 教授 (20092588)
• Project Period (FY): 2011 – 2013
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2013)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,680,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,080,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000); Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000); Fiscal Year 2011: ¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000)
• Keywords: 職業紹介所 / 失業者 / 失業救済事業 / 失業登録 / 公共土木事業 / 公的雇用政策 / 国際労働機関 / ケインズ政策

Research Abstract

The subject of this research is to clarify the principle and the practice of Japanese Unemployment Relief Policy to employ the unemployed directly by the government from the historical and international point of view. It approaches the subject by comparing Japanese case of the 1920s and the 1930s with the cases of Western countries during the same period as well as with the Japanese case after World War 2.
We conclude that the principle of the policy was almost the same among those countries, but the practice including the procedure to select persons to be hired by the Public Construction Works was significantly different among them. The reasons of such differences can be identified in the socio-economic factors around the unemployment problem in those countries.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] 戦前日本の失業対策と労働組合の対応 (2013)
  • Author(s): 加瀬和俊
  • Journal Title: 連合総研レポート Volume: No.281 Pages: 12-15
• [Journal Article] 戦前日本の失業対策と労働組合の対応 (2013)
  • Author(s): 加瀬和俊
  • Journal Title: 連合総研レポートＤＩＯ Volume: ２８１号 Pages: 12-15
• [Journal Article] 書評：佐藤正広著『帝国日本と統計調査』 (2013)
  • Author(s): 加瀬和俊
  • Journal Title: 歴史と経済 Volume: ２１９号 Pages: 62-64
• [Journal Article] 日雇・失業対策史資料解説 (2012)
  • Author(s): 加瀬和俊
  • Journal Title: 日雇・失業対策史資料別冊解説 Pages: 7-41
• [Journal Article] 失業対策反対論の諸相 (2011)
  • Author(s): 加瀬和俊
  • Journal Title: 本郷 Volume: No.96 Pages: 8-10
  • NAID: 40019051295
• [Journal Article] 出稼農民像の変容:季節労働者失業保険金問題を手がかりに (2011)
  • Author(s): 加瀬和俊
  • Journal Title: 国立歴史民俗博物館研究報告 Volume: No.171 Pages: 25-41
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] 出稼農民像の変容ーー季節労働者失業保険金問題を手がかりに (2011)
  • Author(s): 加瀬和俊
  • Journal Title: 国立歴史民俗博物館研究報告 Volume: 171号 Pages: 25-41
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Book] 日雇・失業対策史資料 別冊 解説 (2012)
  • Author(s): 加瀬和俊
  • Total Pages: 41
  • Publisher: 近現代資料刊行会
• [Book] 失業と救済の近代史 (2011)
  • Author(s): 加瀬和俊
  • Total Pages: 217
  • Publisher: 吉川弘文館
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