Means To An End Living with Unemployment in the 1930s

william redvers garside


Region:
North East
Notice Period:
Short (maybe less than one month's notice)
Type:
retired professor
Fee:
Paid
Category:
History
Updated:
9th March 2022

Unemployment remained a persistent problem in the depressed areas of the country for most of the 1930s Effective employment policies were stifled by orthodox economic policy forcing the authorities to deal with the problem through a variety of relief measures These included the means test, welfare policies and a raft of regional initiatives geared to the Special Areas. This talk identifies this range of activity and how it impacted upon families and communities

The speaker is the author of British Unemployment, 1919-1939 (Cambridge University Press).

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About william redvers garside

Retired Professor of Economics and Economic History with extensive lecturing experience in the three countries in which I have worked, namely United Kingdom, New Zealand and Japan Have written extensively on matters relating to UK economic growth and decline with special reference to industrial change, unemployment, the coal industry and the north-south divide More recent research has focused on the rise and fall of Japan as an economic superpower There are numerous sub themes to these broad areas of expertise which are listed in my profile


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