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Item Details
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BREAD AND WORK
THE EXPERIENCE OF UNEMPLOYMENT 1918-39 |
| By: |
Matt Perry |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£85.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0745314864 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780745314860 |
| Publisher: |
PLUTO PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 2000 |
| Pages: |
264 |
| Description: |
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. |
| Synopsis: |
Between the world wars, unemployment spread throughout the industrialised world like a disease. In Bread and Work, Matt Perry places this global unemployment crisis in its proper international context. Focusing on Britain, Europe and the United States, he compares and contrasts popular attitudes and the government response toward unemployment.Looking beyond statistics and economic cycles, Perry investigates the human impact of unemployment. He uncovers the experience of being jobless from the perspective of those who lived through it, their employers and their communities. He uses oral history, memoirs, literary accounts, and newspaper articles to reveal the reality of unemployment.Perry argues that the scale of the crisis has been minimised by historians who have tended to emphasise that prolonged unemployment was the problem of the distressed fringe. Finally, Perry argues that the lessons of the 1930s have direct relevance today since the structural problems of industrial capitalism remain inherent. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Pluto Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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