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Bread and Work : The Experience of Unemployment 1918-39.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Pluto Press, 2000Copyright date: ©2000Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (261 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781849640404
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Bread and WorkDDC classification:
  • 331.13/7941/09041
LOC classification:
  • HD5765.A6 -- P47 2000eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Glossary -- Introduction -- 1 Unemployment: History and Perspectives -- Unemployment and Industrial Capitalism -- Unemployment and the Demise of the Poor Law -- The Late and Contested Recognition of Unemployment -- The Discovery of Unemployment -- Unemployment in Britain between the Wars: Revisionism and its Critics -- Sources of Controversy: Revisionism and Historical Methods -- 2 Government, Employers and Unemployment -- Concessions Born of Unrest, 1918 -22 -- Reform and Retrenchment, 1922 -39 -- Half-measures: Public Works, Labour Camps and Special Areas -- Employers' Organisations, Bosses and Unemployment -- Conclusion -- 3 The Experience of Unemployment -- The Representation of Unemployment -- The Reality of Unemployment -- Housing and Health -- An Authoritarian Social Policy: The Administration of the Unemployed -- The Unemployed Condition: Dole and Revolution? -- Conclusion -- 4 The Labour Party and Unemployment -- Labour Party Thought and Unemployment -- Dissenting Economic Views -- 1924 - Labour's First Term -- Labour's Second Term, 1929-31 -- The Aftermath -- 5 Unemployed Struggles -- The National Unemployed Workers' Movement and its Major Battles -- 1919-23 -- 1931-36 -- The Record of the National Unemployed Workers' Movement -- 6 The Unemployed in the United States -- Britain and the United States -- Individualism, Welfare Capitalism and the Problem of Unemployment -- Government and the Emergence of Mass Unemployment, 1929-32 -- New Deal Reforms and the Unemployed, 1933-40 -- The American Experience of Unemployment in the 1930s -- Experiencing Relief -- Unemployment, Race and Gender -- Representation and Reality of Unemployment -- The Struggles of the American Unemployed -- The Communists and the Unemployed Councils -- Non-communist Unemployed Protests -- Conclusion.
7 Unemployment in Europe between the Wars -- Unemployment Insurance in Europe -- Unemployment Insurance in Crisis, 1929-33 -- Public Works: Work-Creation and Coercion -- Europe's Unemployed -- Unemployed Women in Europe -- Deprivations of the Unemployed -- Contemporary Social Research into Unemployment -- European Unemployed Struggles -- Conclusion -- Conclusions -- Tables -- Notes -- Introduction -- 1 Unemployment: History and Perspectives -- 2 Government, Employers and Unemployment -- 3 The Experience of Unemployment -- 4 The Labour Party and Unemployment -- 5 Unemployed Struggles -- 6 The Unemployed in the United States -- 7 Unemployment in Europe between the Wars -- Conclusions -- Tables -- Select Bibliography -- Britain -- United States -- Continental Europe -- Index -- American Liberty League -- xii -- 143-4 -- Anomalies Act [1931] -- 75 -- 77-8 -- 94 -- 198 -- Arbeitslosenversicherung und Arbeitsvermittlung Gesetz [AVAG] -- xii -- 166-8 -- Austria -- 8 -- 161 -- 164 -- 165 -- 171 -- 172 -- Baldwin, Stanley -- 23 -- 42 -- 47 -- 53 -- 81 -- 199 -- Balfour Committee 89 -- Bank of England -- 53 -- 93-4 -- 100 -- Belfast 108 -- Belgium -- 16 -- 162-3 -- 170 -- 177 -- Bentham, Jeremy 17 -- Betterton, Henry 44 -- Beveridge, William -- 1 -- 9 -- 17 -- 29 -- 52 -- 197 -- Birkenhead 107-8 -- Bismarck, Otto von 15 -- Black Friday 39 -- Blanesburgh committee -- 40 -- 42 -- 50 -- Bondfield, Margaret -- 87 -- 90 -- 92 -- 94 -- Bonus March [1932] -- xii -- 153-4 -- Booth, Charles -- 22 -- 30 -- Brailsford, H.N. 85-6 -- Brüning, Heinrich 169 -- Bulgaria -- 164 -- 171 -- 188 -- 190 -- Capital Levy 88 -- Charity -- 15 -- 38 -- 55 -- 58 -- 131-2 -- 139 -- Churchill, Winston 21 -- City of London 96 -- Civil Conservation Corps [CCC] -- xii -- 133 -- 152 -- Civil Works Administration [CWA] -- xii -- 135 -- Cole, G.D.H. -- Cole, G.D.H 91 -- Cole, G.D.H 199.
Cole, Margaret -- 91 -- 98 -- Communist Parties -- Communist Party of Great Britain 6 -- Communist Party of Great Britain 25 -- Communist Party of Great Britain 89 -- Communist Party of Great Britain 115-18 -- Communist Party of the United States of America 148-53 -- Communist Party of the United States of America 148-53 -- Communist Party of the United States of America 156-8 -- Communist Party of the United States of America 156-8 -- German Communist Party [KPD] xiii, 8 -- German Communist Party [KPD] xiii, 190-1 -- ix, xii, 6 -- ix, xii, 39 -- ix, xii, 172 -- ix, xii, 187-91 -- Conservative Party -- 1 -- 5 -- 43 -- 78 -- 87 -- Corporatism -- 38-9 -- 196 -- Courts of Referees -- xii -- 43 -- 76 -- 115 -- Cripps, Sir Stafford 98 -- Czechoslovakia -- 162 -- 163 -- 179 -- 189-90 -- Daily Express 61 -- Daily Herald -- 86 -- 90 -- 100 -- Daily Mail 59 -- Daily Worker 50 -- Dalton, Hugh 100 -- Denmark -- 162 -- 163 -- 165 -- 170 -- 172 -- Depressed areas -- 30 -- 46-8 -- 65 -- 69-70 -- 100 -- Deuschnationale Volkspartei [DNVP] -- xii -- 166 -- Dolfuss, E. 171 -- Economic Advisory Council 91 -- Economic League 49-50 -- Economist, The 93-4 -- Employers -- 39-40 -- 48-57 -- 93 -- 127 -- 131-2 -- FBI xiii, 4 -- FBI xiii, 4 -- FBI xiii, 49 -- FBI xiii, 49 -- FBI xiii, 93 -- FBI xiii, 93 -- NCEO xiv, 4 -- NCEO xiv, 45-57 -- NCEO xiv, 93 -- NCEO xiv, 121 -- Eugenics -- 30-1 -- 146 -- 171 -- Europe -- 1 -- 7-8 -- 10-13 -- 20 -- 160-93 -- Evictions -- 104 -- 149 -- Ewerbslosenfürsorge -- xiii -- 162 -- Exceptionalism -- 81 -- 103 -- Export Credit Scheme -- 52 -- 87 -- Factory legislation 15 -- Federal Emergency Relief Administration [FERA] -- 133-5 -- 152-3 -- Fields, Gracie 62 -- Film -- 62 -- 145 -- Finland 163 -- Ford, Henry -- 7 -- 53 -- 132 -- 152 -- France -- 16 -- 19 -- 20 -- 26 -- 162 -- 163 -- Freiwillige Arbeitsdienst [FAD].
xiii -- 169 -- 172 -- French revolution of -- 20 -- Gairloch conference [1921] 49 -- Geddes axe -- xiii -- 42 -- 94 -- Genuinely Seeking Work -- xiii -- 5 -- 41 -- 83 -- 87-8 -- 198 -- Germany -- 8 -- 10 -- 12 -- 15 -- 160 -- 161-2 -- Ghent system -- xiii -- 7 -- 162-3 -- Giffard, W. 132 -- Gold Standard -- xiii -- 3 -- 41 -- 83 -- 93-7 -- 133 -- Hannington, Wal -- 29 -- 39 -- 80 -- 99 -- 114 -- 116-18 -- Health -- 28 -- 70-4 -- 140-1 -- 180-2 -- Henderson, Arthur 86 -- Hitler, Adolf -- 9 -- 169 -- 171 -- 200 -- Hobson, J.A. 85-6 -- Hoover, Herbert -- 7 -- 9 -- 131-3 -- 137 -- Hopkins, Harry -- 135 -- 145 -- 152 -- Housing -- 69-70 -- 72 -- 138 -- 179 -- Hungary -- 161 -- 188 -- Hunger marches -- 29 -- 43 -- 48 -- 59 -- 98-9 -- 103-24 -- Independent Labour Party [ILP] -- 85-6 -- 89-98 -- Industrial revolution 11-13 -- Infant mortality 21-2 -- Ireland 164 -- Italy -- 162 -- 164 -- 165 -- 168 -- 170 -- 173 -- Jarrow -- 24 -- 48 -- 54-5 -- 61 -- 73 -- 103 -- Kalechi, Michael 1 -- Keynes, John Maynard -- 5-6 -- 9 -- 24 -- 83-5 -- 91 -- 95 -- Labour and the New Social Order -- 81 -- 101 -- Labour camps -- 47 -- 133 -- 134 -- 152 -- 170-2 -- Labour Exchange Committees [LECs] -- xiii -- 42 -- 88 -- Labour Government [1924] 86-90 -- Labour Government [1929-31] 90-7 -- Labour Party -- 5-6 -- 9 -- 24 -- 43 -- 81-102 -- 197 -- Langnamverein -- xiii -- 167 -- Lansbury, George -- 91 -- 105 -- Little Man-What Now?? 179-80 -- Living Wage, The 86 -- Lloyd George, David -- 38-40 -- 41 -- 83-4 -- Love on the Dole -- 31 -- 62 -- 65 -- Lyons 20 -- M'Gonigle, G. -- 71 -- 73-4 -- MacDonald, Ramsay -- 23 -- 83-4 -- 86-97 -- 106 -- 109 -- Macmillan Committee [1931] 94-5 -- Macmillan, Harold 55 -- MacNamara, Thomas -- 37 -- 41 -- 105 -- Malingering -- 4 -- 42 -- 50 -- 60 -- 136 -- 144 -- 170 -- Malthus, Rev.T.R. 17 -- Manufacturers -- 127 -- 132 -- Marienthal 184-5.
Marx, Karl 21-22 -- Mass-observation -- 31 -- 75-6 -- Maternal mortality 71 -- May Committee [1931] -- 52 -- 94-95 -- 121 -- McShane, Harry -- 33 -- 104-6 -- 114-15 -- Means Test -- xiii -- 5 -- 42 -- 76-7 -- Means Test Man -- 31 -- 77 -- Migration -- 46-7 -- 138 -- 142 -- 174-5 -- 178-9 -- Ministry of Health -- 72 -- 119 -- Ministry of Labour -- 29 -- 37 -- 44 -- 74 -- 119 -- Monarchy -- 41 -- 48 -- 61-2 -- 87 -- 97 -- 105 -- Mond-Turner talks 54-5 -- Monetarism -- 2 -- 58 -- 128 -- Morris Committee [1929] -- 51 -- 90 -- Mosley, Sir Oswald -- 85-6 -- 91-2 -- Murray, Charles -- 127-8 -- 147 -- Museites -- xiii -- 154-5 -- National Industrial Conference Board -- 130 -- 135 -- 168 -- National Industrial Recovery Act -- xiv -- 133 -- National Shipbuilders' Security Ltd. [NSS] 54 -- National Unemployed Workers Movement [NUWM] -- 6 -- 25 -- 27 -- 29 -- 32-3 -- 76 -- Nazis -- 8 -- 169 -- 177 -- 198 -- Netherlands -- 10 -- 165 -- 177 -- 190 -- New Deal -- ix -- 7 -- 133-6 -- 140 -- 143 -- 158-9 -- New Fabian Research Bureau 101 -- Newman, Sir George -- 70 -- 73 -- Newspapers -- 59-61 -- 118 -- 144 -- Newsreels 62 -- Norway -- 16 -- 162 -- 164 -- 173 -- Novels -- 4 -- 31 -- 77 -- Oral history -- 31-2 -- 58 -- 103 -- Orwell, George -- 6 -- 30-1 -- 70 -- 113 -- Out of Work Donation [1918] -- 40 -- 50 -- Overcrowding -- 70 -- 179 -- Poland -- 8 -- 160 -- 162 -- 164 -- 165 -- 166 -- Police -- 29 -- 107 -- 109 -- 111 -- 115 -- 149 -- Poor Law -- xiv -- 3 -- 5 -- 13-15 -- 45 -- 50 -- 82 -- 92 -- Popular front -- xiv -- 116 -- 157 -- 170 -- Poverty -- 17-18 -- 22 -- 30 -- President 's Organisation for Unemployment Relief [POUR] 132 -- Prevention of Unemployment Bills 83 -- Programme of Immediate Action 100 -- Public Assistance Committees [PACs] -- xiv -- 44 -- 110 -- Public works -- 8 -- 45-7 -- 168-73 -- Public Works Administration -- xiv -- 134 -- Race, racism.
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Summary: The book examines the experience of unemployment and its effect on politics and society in the Interwar years focusing on Britain, Europe and the USA.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Glossary -- Introduction -- 1 Unemployment: History and Perspectives -- Unemployment and Industrial Capitalism -- Unemployment and the Demise of the Poor Law -- The Late and Contested Recognition of Unemployment -- The Discovery of Unemployment -- Unemployment in Britain between the Wars: Revisionism and its Critics -- Sources of Controversy: Revisionism and Historical Methods -- 2 Government, Employers and Unemployment -- Concessions Born of Unrest, 1918 -22 -- Reform and Retrenchment, 1922 -39 -- Half-measures: Public Works, Labour Camps and Special Areas -- Employers' Organisations, Bosses and Unemployment -- Conclusion -- 3 The Experience of Unemployment -- The Representation of Unemployment -- The Reality of Unemployment -- Housing and Health -- An Authoritarian Social Policy: The Administration of the Unemployed -- The Unemployed Condition: Dole and Revolution? -- Conclusion -- 4 The Labour Party and Unemployment -- Labour Party Thought and Unemployment -- Dissenting Economic Views -- 1924 - Labour's First Term -- Labour's Second Term, 1929-31 -- The Aftermath -- 5 Unemployed Struggles -- The National Unemployed Workers' Movement and its Major Battles -- 1919-23 -- 1931-36 -- The Record of the National Unemployed Workers' Movement -- 6 The Unemployed in the United States -- Britain and the United States -- Individualism, Welfare Capitalism and the Problem of Unemployment -- Government and the Emergence of Mass Unemployment, 1929-32 -- New Deal Reforms and the Unemployed, 1933-40 -- The American Experience of Unemployment in the 1930s -- Experiencing Relief -- Unemployment, Race and Gender -- Representation and Reality of Unemployment -- The Struggles of the American Unemployed -- The Communists and the Unemployed Councils -- Non-communist Unemployed Protests -- Conclusion.

7 Unemployment in Europe between the Wars -- Unemployment Insurance in Europe -- Unemployment Insurance in Crisis, 1929-33 -- Public Works: Work-Creation and Coercion -- Europe's Unemployed -- Unemployed Women in Europe -- Deprivations of the Unemployed -- Contemporary Social Research into Unemployment -- European Unemployed Struggles -- Conclusion -- Conclusions -- Tables -- Notes -- Introduction -- 1 Unemployment: History and Perspectives -- 2 Government, Employers and Unemployment -- 3 The Experience of Unemployment -- 4 The Labour Party and Unemployment -- 5 Unemployed Struggles -- 6 The Unemployed in the United States -- 7 Unemployment in Europe between the Wars -- Conclusions -- Tables -- Select Bibliography -- Britain -- United States -- Continental Europe -- Index -- American Liberty League -- xii -- 143-4 -- Anomalies Act [1931] -- 75 -- 77-8 -- 94 -- 198 -- Arbeitslosenversicherung und Arbeitsvermittlung Gesetz [AVAG] -- xii -- 166-8 -- Austria -- 8 -- 161 -- 164 -- 165 -- 171 -- 172 -- Baldwin, Stanley -- 23 -- 42 -- 47 -- 53 -- 81 -- 199 -- Balfour Committee 89 -- Bank of England -- 53 -- 93-4 -- 100 -- Belfast 108 -- Belgium -- 16 -- 162-3 -- 170 -- 177 -- Bentham, Jeremy 17 -- Betterton, Henry 44 -- Beveridge, William -- 1 -- 9 -- 17 -- 29 -- 52 -- 197 -- Birkenhead 107-8 -- Bismarck, Otto von 15 -- Black Friday 39 -- Blanesburgh committee -- 40 -- 42 -- 50 -- Bondfield, Margaret -- 87 -- 90 -- 92 -- 94 -- Bonus March [1932] -- xii -- 153-4 -- Booth, Charles -- 22 -- 30 -- Brailsford, H.N. 85-6 -- Brüning, Heinrich 169 -- Bulgaria -- 164 -- 171 -- 188 -- 190 -- Capital Levy 88 -- Charity -- 15 -- 38 -- 55 -- 58 -- 131-2 -- 139 -- Churchill, Winston 21 -- City of London 96 -- Civil Conservation Corps [CCC] -- xii -- 133 -- 152 -- Civil Works Administration [CWA] -- xii -- 135 -- Cole, G.D.H. -- Cole, G.D.H 91 -- Cole, G.D.H 199.

Cole, Margaret -- 91 -- 98 -- Communist Parties -- Communist Party of Great Britain 6 -- Communist Party of Great Britain 25 -- Communist Party of Great Britain 89 -- Communist Party of Great Britain 115-18 -- Communist Party of the United States of America 148-53 -- Communist Party of the United States of America 148-53 -- Communist Party of the United States of America 156-8 -- Communist Party of the United States of America 156-8 -- German Communist Party [KPD] xiii, 8 -- German Communist Party [KPD] xiii, 190-1 -- ix, xii, 6 -- ix, xii, 39 -- ix, xii, 172 -- ix, xii, 187-91 -- Conservative Party -- 1 -- 5 -- 43 -- 78 -- 87 -- Corporatism -- 38-9 -- 196 -- Courts of Referees -- xii -- 43 -- 76 -- 115 -- Cripps, Sir Stafford 98 -- Czechoslovakia -- 162 -- 163 -- 179 -- 189-90 -- Daily Express 61 -- Daily Herald -- 86 -- 90 -- 100 -- Daily Mail 59 -- Daily Worker 50 -- Dalton, Hugh 100 -- Denmark -- 162 -- 163 -- 165 -- 170 -- 172 -- Depressed areas -- 30 -- 46-8 -- 65 -- 69-70 -- 100 -- Deuschnationale Volkspartei [DNVP] -- xii -- 166 -- Dolfuss, E. 171 -- Economic Advisory Council 91 -- Economic League 49-50 -- Economist, The 93-4 -- Employers -- 39-40 -- 48-57 -- 93 -- 127 -- 131-2 -- FBI xiii, 4 -- FBI xiii, 4 -- FBI xiii, 49 -- FBI xiii, 49 -- FBI xiii, 93 -- FBI xiii, 93 -- NCEO xiv, 4 -- NCEO xiv, 45-57 -- NCEO xiv, 93 -- NCEO xiv, 121 -- Eugenics -- 30-1 -- 146 -- 171 -- Europe -- 1 -- 7-8 -- 10-13 -- 20 -- 160-93 -- Evictions -- 104 -- 149 -- Ewerbslosenfürsorge -- xiii -- 162 -- Exceptionalism -- 81 -- 103 -- Export Credit Scheme -- 52 -- 87 -- Factory legislation 15 -- Federal Emergency Relief Administration [FERA] -- 133-5 -- 152-3 -- Fields, Gracie 62 -- Film -- 62 -- 145 -- Finland 163 -- Ford, Henry -- 7 -- 53 -- 132 -- 152 -- France -- 16 -- 19 -- 20 -- 26 -- 162 -- 163 -- Freiwillige Arbeitsdienst [FAD].

xiii -- 169 -- 172 -- French revolution of -- 20 -- Gairloch conference [1921] 49 -- Geddes axe -- xiii -- 42 -- 94 -- Genuinely Seeking Work -- xiii -- 5 -- 41 -- 83 -- 87-8 -- 198 -- Germany -- 8 -- 10 -- 12 -- 15 -- 160 -- 161-2 -- Ghent system -- xiii -- 7 -- 162-3 -- Giffard, W. 132 -- Gold Standard -- xiii -- 3 -- 41 -- 83 -- 93-7 -- 133 -- Hannington, Wal -- 29 -- 39 -- 80 -- 99 -- 114 -- 116-18 -- Health -- 28 -- 70-4 -- 140-1 -- 180-2 -- Henderson, Arthur 86 -- Hitler, Adolf -- 9 -- 169 -- 171 -- 200 -- Hobson, J.A. 85-6 -- Hoover, Herbert -- 7 -- 9 -- 131-3 -- 137 -- Hopkins, Harry -- 135 -- 145 -- 152 -- Housing -- 69-70 -- 72 -- 138 -- 179 -- Hungary -- 161 -- 188 -- Hunger marches -- 29 -- 43 -- 48 -- 59 -- 98-9 -- 103-24 -- Independent Labour Party [ILP] -- 85-6 -- 89-98 -- Industrial revolution 11-13 -- Infant mortality 21-2 -- Ireland 164 -- Italy -- 162 -- 164 -- 165 -- 168 -- 170 -- 173 -- Jarrow -- 24 -- 48 -- 54-5 -- 61 -- 73 -- 103 -- Kalechi, Michael 1 -- Keynes, John Maynard -- 5-6 -- 9 -- 24 -- 83-5 -- 91 -- 95 -- Labour and the New Social Order -- 81 -- 101 -- Labour camps -- 47 -- 133 -- 134 -- 152 -- 170-2 -- Labour Exchange Committees [LECs] -- xiii -- 42 -- 88 -- Labour Government [1924] 86-90 -- Labour Government [1929-31] 90-7 -- Labour Party -- 5-6 -- 9 -- 24 -- 43 -- 81-102 -- 197 -- Langnamverein -- xiii -- 167 -- Lansbury, George -- 91 -- 105 -- Little Man-What Now?? 179-80 -- Living Wage, The 86 -- Lloyd George, David -- 38-40 -- 41 -- 83-4 -- Love on the Dole -- 31 -- 62 -- 65 -- Lyons 20 -- M'Gonigle, G. -- 71 -- 73-4 -- MacDonald, Ramsay -- 23 -- 83-4 -- 86-97 -- 106 -- 109 -- Macmillan Committee [1931] 94-5 -- Macmillan, Harold 55 -- MacNamara, Thomas -- 37 -- 41 -- 105 -- Malingering -- 4 -- 42 -- 50 -- 60 -- 136 -- 144 -- 170 -- Malthus, Rev.T.R. 17 -- Manufacturers -- 127 -- 132 -- Marienthal 184-5.

Marx, Karl 21-22 -- Mass-observation -- 31 -- 75-6 -- Maternal mortality 71 -- May Committee [1931] -- 52 -- 94-95 -- 121 -- McShane, Harry -- 33 -- 104-6 -- 114-15 -- Means Test -- xiii -- 5 -- 42 -- 76-7 -- Means Test Man -- 31 -- 77 -- Migration -- 46-7 -- 138 -- 142 -- 174-5 -- 178-9 -- Ministry of Health -- 72 -- 119 -- Ministry of Labour -- 29 -- 37 -- 44 -- 74 -- 119 -- Monarchy -- 41 -- 48 -- 61-2 -- 87 -- 97 -- 105 -- Mond-Turner talks 54-5 -- Monetarism -- 2 -- 58 -- 128 -- Morris Committee [1929] -- 51 -- 90 -- Mosley, Sir Oswald -- 85-6 -- 91-2 -- Murray, Charles -- 127-8 -- 147 -- Museites -- xiii -- 154-5 -- National Industrial Conference Board -- 130 -- 135 -- 168 -- National Industrial Recovery Act -- xiv -- 133 -- National Shipbuilders' Security Ltd. [NSS] 54 -- National Unemployed Workers Movement [NUWM] -- 6 -- 25 -- 27 -- 29 -- 32-3 -- 76 -- Nazis -- 8 -- 169 -- 177 -- 198 -- Netherlands -- 10 -- 165 -- 177 -- 190 -- New Deal -- ix -- 7 -- 133-6 -- 140 -- 143 -- 158-9 -- New Fabian Research Bureau 101 -- Newman, Sir George -- 70 -- 73 -- Newspapers -- 59-61 -- 118 -- 144 -- Newsreels 62 -- Norway -- 16 -- 162 -- 164 -- 173 -- Novels -- 4 -- 31 -- 77 -- Oral history -- 31-2 -- 58 -- 103 -- Orwell, George -- 6 -- 30-1 -- 70 -- 113 -- Out of Work Donation [1918] -- 40 -- 50 -- Overcrowding -- 70 -- 179 -- Poland -- 8 -- 160 -- 162 -- 164 -- 165 -- 166 -- Police -- 29 -- 107 -- 109 -- 111 -- 115 -- 149 -- Poor Law -- xiv -- 3 -- 5 -- 13-15 -- 45 -- 50 -- 82 -- 92 -- Popular front -- xiv -- 116 -- 157 -- 170 -- Poverty -- 17-18 -- 22 -- 30 -- President 's Organisation for Unemployment Relief [POUR] 132 -- Prevention of Unemployment Bills 83 -- Programme of Immediate Action 100 -- Public Assistance Committees [PACs] -- xiv -- 44 -- 110 -- Public works -- 8 -- 45-7 -- 168-73 -- Public Works Administration -- xiv -- 134 -- Race, racism.

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The book examines the experience of unemployment and its effect on politics and society in the Interwar years focusing on Britain, Europe and the USA.

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