Unemployment in Britain Between the Wars

by Stephen Constantine

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138167735
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/23/2017
Series:	Seminar Studies
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table 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