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.
INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES viACKNOWLEDGEMENTS viiPart One: The Background1 THE UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM 12 ECONOMIC CAUSES 5Cyclical unemployment 6Structural unemployment 9Part Two: The Effects of Economic Depression3 SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES 17The geography of unemployment and migration 17Who were the unemployed? 22Poverty 25Health 30Morale 364 UNEMPLOYMENT POLICIES 451920-1925 461925-1931 571931-1939 67Part Three: Assessment 77Part Four: Documents 85BIBLIOGRAPHY 108INDEX
