Reminiscences of Philip Booth : oral history, 1981.

Biographical Note

Political scientist, government employee.

Scope and Contents

Graduate work in political science, University of Chicago, 1930-35; association with future Labor Department and Social Security Board members; legislative adviser, Unemployment Commission, 1936-62: development of disqualification and merit rating policies, farm labor and supplemental benefits, temporary extended benefits; professor, University of Michigan School of Social Work, 1962-74: lectures on unemployment compensation, research on problems of California's unemployed farm workers.

Subjects

• Booth, Philip.
• Government executives--United States--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Labor supply.
• Oral histories.
• Political scientists in government--Interviews.
• Riordan, Shirley, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Supplemental unemployment benefits.
• Unemployment insurance.

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