Unemployment in Britain Between the Wars

 Drawing on a range of contemporary evidence, Stephen Constantine studies the nature and causes of unemployment in Britain during the 1920s and 1930s, and analyzes the failure of successive inter-war governments to make a constructive response.

List of contents

INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES vi
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vii
Part One: The Background
1 THE UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM 1
2 ECONOMIC CAUSES 5
Cyclical unemployment 6
Structural unemployment 9
Part Two: The Effects of Economic Depression
3 SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES 17
The geography of unemployment and migration 17
Who were the unemployed? 22
Poverty 25
Health 30
Morale 36
4 UNEMPLOYMENT POLICIES 45
1920-1925 46
1925-1931 57
1931-1939 67
Part Three: Assessment 77
Part Four: Documents 85
BIBLIOGRAPHY 108
INDEX

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Constantine, Constantine Stephen
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.02.2017
• EAN: 9781138167735
• ISBN: 978-1-138-16773-5
• No. of pages: 128
• Series: Seminar Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Poverty & unemployment, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, British & Irish history, Social and cultural history, Poverty and precarity