The Slump: Britain in the Great Depression

by Stevenson; John

• ISBN13: 9781408230107
• ISBN10: 1408230100
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2009-10-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The Slump: Britain in the Great Depression takes an illuminating look back at the 1930s - the decade of depression and economic crisis in the twentieth century. Contains a new introduction, framing the historical narrative in the light of recent scholarship and discussing relevant new research A substantial final chapter which places the 1930s in historical context and highlights parallels and similarities to the current crisis and others that have occurred since the '30s. Statistical tables integrated throughout the text Illustrations in a plate section A revised and extended bibliography to include major new publications since the last edition

Table of Contents

Illustrations	p. viii
Preface and acknowledgements	p. x
Introduction to the New Edition	p. 1
Myth and reality: Britain in the 1930s	p. 9
The dawn of affluence	p. 16
The hungry thirties	p. 40
The problem of unemployment	p. 65
The impact of unemployment	p. 87
Labour and the Working Class: The General Election of 1931	p. 110
Politics and the people, 1931-5	p. 129
The Communist Party	p. 142
The National Unemployed Workers' Movement	p. 161
Hunger marches and demonstrations	p. 183
The Fascist challenge	p. 212
The Government and public order	p. 235
Left at the Polls: The General Election of 1935 and after	p. 262
The revolution that never was	p. 283
Afterword: Back to the 1930s?	p. 301
Bibliography	p. 320
Index	p. 328
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