Unemployment and the State in Britain The Means Test and Protest in 1930s South Wales and North-East England

by Ward, Stephanie

• ISBN13: 9780719086809
• ISBN10: 0719086809
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-10-15
• Publisher: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS

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.

Author Biography

Stephanie Ward is Lecturer in Modern Welsh History at Cardiff University, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I
1. From Fortune Makers to the Forgotten Regions: South Wales and the North-East of England
Part II 1931–4
2. Defiance and Disobedience: The Implementation of the Means Test Under the PACs
3. Accusations, Image and Experience: The Effects of the Means Test, 1931–1934
4. Taking a Stand: The Response of the Unemployed 1931–1934
Part III 1935–9
5. The Government Attempts to Take a Stand: The Establishment of the UAB and Mass Action
6. To the End: Class, Community and the Continued Struggle, 1936–1939
Conclusion
Appendices
Bibliography
Index