Word: doles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sweet young English rose who would never think of working, except for a few weeks, so as to get on the Dole, marry, and apply her benefit to instalment payments on the furniture...
Flagrant Abuses. To some minds it may seem a flagrant abuse that "dependent unmarried mothers" should batten on the Dole when their men are out of work, but such is the law, this battening is no abuse...
Consider a small British button manufacturer. One hundred men work for him each week, though his factory will only hold 50. Half the men work Monday through Wednesday, draw their dole the rest of the week. Meanwhile the other half have drawn their dole for three days, work Thursday through Saturday. So well does this half-loaf, half-work system please the proletarian that when he does work he is willing to accept a slightly lower daily wage than if forced to work regularly, and this pleases the manufacturer. There are also cases of deliberate collusion: a man works...
...Dole Types currently visible in England include the following...
...wench already on the Dole who reports (as she must) at a State Employment Exchange, is told that a lady wants a cook, says to the lady, "I'm a good cook m'am, but you won't mind if I break dishes? I'm that clumsy!" She stays on the Dole...