Unemployment Insurance and Labour Exchanges
Sir William Beveridge , K.C.B.
Sir William Beveridge 's connection with the problems of unemployment began more than thirty years ago when, in 1905, he became a member of the Central (Unemployed) Body for London. A little later he was appointed Chairman of the new Employment Exchanges Committee. In 1908 he went to the Board of Trade and remained there till 1916, the greater part of the time as Director of Labour Exchanges. His later appointments and distinctions are innumerable ; from 1919 until quite recently he was Director of the London School of Economics, and since 1934 he has been Chairman of the Unemployment Insurance Statutory Committee.
But Sir William's interests are not all economic ; in 1912 he published an anthology of thoughts on woman and in 1916 he invented 'Swish', a submarine war game.