Roughly three million Algerian Muslims faced serious underemployment by 1955
Evidence
The official Maspétiol Report of 1955, which deeply shocked the French government, revealed that nearly one million Muslims (or one in nine of the overall population) were totally or partially unemployed, and that another two million were seriously underemployed; in the country this meant that the agricultural worker worked no more than an average of sixty-five days a year — or thirty-five days if female labour were included in the reckoning. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 185
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: A French official survey documented mass unemployment and illiteracy among Algerian Muslims; Algerian poverty and unemployment fuelled recruits for the Islamicist revolt — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 43; Algerian land produced ever-diminishing returns while the Muslim population trebled
Related
- A French official survey documented mass unemployment and illiteracy among Algerian Muslims (similarity 0.93)
- Algerian poverty and unemployment fuelled recruits for the Islamicist revolt (similarity 0.85)
- Algerian land produced ever-diminishing returns while the Muslim population trebled (similarity 0.85)
- Algerian Muslims earned roughly one-thirtieth of European earnings yet paid proportionally heavier taxes. (similarity 0.83)
- Algerian underdevelopment stemmed from a century of persistent underinvestment (similarity 0.82)
- Muslim Algerians earned thirty times less than Europeans yet bore heavier tax burdens (similarity 0.80)
- Unemployed Muslim migrants flocking to cities were excluded from half of industrial jobs. (similarity 0.80)
- A growing Muslim population outpaced land gains, shrinking per-capita holdings (similarity 0.80)
- Muslim population growth outpaced land gains, creating extreme inequality (similarity 0.80)
- Illiteracy and unemployment forced Algerian girls into early marriage (similarity 0.79)