Unemployment in Britain Between the Wars

Stephen Constantine

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