a. and sb. (UN-1 7 b.)
Common in recent use; hence unemployability.
1837. St. James’s Gaz. 22 Dec., 4/1. Persons who are unemployed because they are unemployable.
1900. Q. Rev., Jan., 174. The class of the casual labourer or the unemployable.
1920. Ada Eliot Sheffield, The Social Case History, vii. 210. We could call this a case of desertion, of non-support, of alcoholism, or of unemployability, according to the factor which seemed to be most operative. Ibid. 213. The gross maladjustments, however, with which the social worker ordinarily deals are either within the home life itself, as non-support, desertion, incompetent home-making, neglect of children; or else affect it unmistakably, as in the case of sex irregularity, unemployability, truancy, crime.
