In the period before the second World War, the Dutch Bureau of Statistics had developed two sets of indicators ofunemployment in the Netherlands. One was based on statistical data of unemployment insurance funds of tradeunions and the other one on statistical data of labour exchanges. This paper...

This paper investigates i) the two measurement procedures of unemployment – one based on trade union unemployment insurance records and the other on labour exchange data – that were established by the Dutch official statistical office in order to measure the elusive concept of unemployment...

During the interwar period, the Netherlands experienced a phase of rapid industrialization and mechanization and saw the introduction of many new labor-saving techniques on the shop floor. This process, which went under the name “rationalization of production,” caused great concern in the...