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Author Ward, Stephanie, author.

Title Unemployment and the state in Britain : the means test and protest in 1930s south Wales and north-east England / Stephanie Ward
Published Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, [2013]
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 292 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents 1. Unemployment and the depression in interwar Britain -- 2. Defiance and disobedience: local government, the unemployed and Whitehall -- 3. Accusations, image and experience: the effects of the means test, 1931-34 -- 4. Taking a stand: the response of the unemployed 1931-34 -- 5. The government attempts to take a stand: the establishment of the UAB and mass action -- 6. Towards the welfare state: class, community and collective action, 1936-41
Summary Unemployment and the state in Britain offers an important and original contribution to understandings of the 1930s. Through a comparative case study of south Wales and the north-east of England, the book explores the impact of the highly controversial means test, the relationship between the unemployed and the government and the nature of some of the largest protests of the interwar period. This study will appeal to students and scholars of the depression, social movements, studies of the unemployed, social policy and interwar British society.-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Stephanie Ward is Lecturer in Modern Welsh History at Cardiff University
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Subject Unemployment -- England, North East -- History -- 20th century
Unemployment -- Wales, South -- History -- 20th century
Means tests -- Social aspects -- England, North East -- History -- 20th century
Means tests -- Wales, South -- History -- 20th century
Unemployed -- England, North East -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Unemployed -- Wales, South -- Social conditions -- 20th century
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia.
Means tests
Unemployed -- Social conditions
Unemployment
England -- England, North East
South Wales
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781526112330
1526112337
9781526112323
1526112329
1781705992
9781781705995