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:	9780582352322
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/21/1980
Series:	Seminar Studies
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.81(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