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"A Scheme for Finding Employment for Disabled Sailors and Soldiers" by Sir Henry Lesser Rothband
This is a collection, published in 1917, which contains extracts of letters in support of a National Roll of Employers, plus arguments put forward by Mr Rothband for such a scheme to be put in place.
Henry Rothband began campaigning for an employment scheme for disabled ex-servicemen in 1915, issuing pamphlets detailing his proposals for a "royal roll of employers willing to employ one or more disabled men, that is to say, a permanent guarantee of employment embodied in book form and distributed to all employment agencies, and not a mere agency itself." Excerpts from these pamphlets frequently appeared in issues of the Manchester Guardian.
Mr Rothband wrote all of his ideas for the scheme into a book entitled "Employment of Disabled Sailors and Soldiers", published in 1917, which is reproduced here in its entirety thanks to Manchester Central Library Archives+.
To find out more about the scheme, visit the History Window.
Henry was created a baronet of Higher Broughton, Salford in 1923, in recognition of his "public services", most notably his work on 'The Rothband Employment Scheme'.
To read more about his life and work, visit his Personal Record below.
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