This is probably too late to help you, Bat Goddess, but it might help someone else reading this thread: I highly recommend a book called "The rights of employees and union members: the basic ACLU guide to the rights of employees and union members" by Wayne N. Outten, Robert J. Rabin, Lisa R. Lipman.
I read it a long time ago, and there is probably a newer edition available than the one I read. As I remember it, you CAN sometimes qualify for unemployment benefits after quitting a job, and the criterion is: Would a reasonable person quit a job under those circumstances? An example they gave was: A husband was transferred to another city, so his wife quit her job so she could go with him. The ruling was, yes, a reasonable person WOULD quit under those circumstances, so she did qualify, even though it was no fault of the wife's employer. Surprising, but true.