Stephen Constantine

Unemployment in Britain Between the Wars (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317881056
• Artikelnr.: 41327804

Autorenporträt

Stephen Constantine

Inhaltsangabe

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