"The 'Invisible' Unemployed"
Magazine article
By: Daniel Bell
Date: July 1958
Source: Bell, Daniel. "The 'Invisible' Unemployed." Fortune, July 1958, 105–109, 198, 202.
About the Author: Daniel Bell (1919–) was one of the twentieth century's most influential American sociologists and political observers. A Columbia University professor, Bell authored numerous books, including his two signature works, The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties (1960) and The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976). A one-time staunch liberal, Bell became a leader of the emerging neoconservative movement of the 1970s.
Introduction
The Great Depression fundamentally altered the American public's fundamental perception of the proper role that the U.S. government should play in the economy. Consensus emerged during this era that the government should...
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