Archive Report
Archive Report
Self-Help Method for Relief of Economic Distress
Proposals for Federal and State Aid to Barter Exchanges
Reduction or exhaustion of the money purchasing power of large numbers of unemployed wage-earners and farmers has brought about a steady and increasingly rapid growth of the practice of barter in the United States. Starting with sporadic cases of simple trading or swapping by individuals, either of one article for another or of a certain quantity of commodities for a specified amount of labor, the barter principle has been extended in the last two years, particularly in the West and Middle West, to the development of a relatively large number of organized cooperative exchanges which are satisfying the primary needs of hundreds of thousands of persons who would otherwise be ...