Bread and work : social policy and the experience of unemployment, 1918-39 / Matt Perry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perry, Matt, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Unemployment--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Unemployment.

Unemployment--United States--History--20th century.

Unemployment--Europe--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 1930's have direct relevance today since the structural problems of industrial capitalism remain inherent.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Tables

Preface

Glossary

Introduction

1 Unemployment: History and Perspectives

Unemployment and Industrial Capitalism

Unemployment and the Demise of the Poor Law

The Late and Contested Recognition of Unemployment

The Discovery of Unemployment

Unemployment in Britain between the Wars: Revisionism and its Critics

Sources of Controversy: Revisionism and Historical Methods

2 Government, Employers and Unemployment

Concessions Born of Unrest, 1918 -22

Reform and Retrenchment, 1922 -39

Half-measures: Public Works, Labour Camps and Special Areas

Employers' Organisations, Bosses and Unemployment

Conclusion

3 The Experience of Unemployment

The Representation of Unemployment

The Reality of Unemployment

Housing and Health

An Authoritarian Social Policy: The Administration of the Unemployed

The Unemployed Condition: Dole and Revolution?

4 The Labour Party and Unemployment

Labour Party Thought and Unemployment

Dissenting Economic Views

1924 - Labour's First Term

Labour's Second Term, 1929-31

The Aftermath

5 Unemployed Struggles

The National Unemployed Workers' Movement and its Major Battles

1919-23

1931-36

The Record of the National Unemployed Workers' Movement

6 The Unemployed in the United States

Britain and the United States

Individualism, Welfare Capitalism and the Problem of Unemployment

Government and the Emergence of Mass Unemployment, 1929-32

New Deal Reforms and the Unemployed, 1933-40

The American Experience of Unemployment in the 1930s

Experiencing Relief

Unemployment, Race and Gender

Representation and Reality of Unemployment

The Struggles of the American Unemployed

The Communists and the Unemployed Councils

Non-communist Unemployed Protests

Conclusion.

7 Unemployment in Europe between the Wars

Unemployment Insurance in Europe

Unemployment Insurance in Crisis, 1929-33

Public Works: Work-Creation and Coercion

Europe's Unemployed

Unemployed Women in Europe

Deprivations of the Unemployed

Contemporary Social Research into Unemployment

European Unemployed Struggles

Conclusions

Tables

Notes

7 Unemployment in Europe between the Wars

Select Bibliography

Britain

United States

Continental Europe

Index

American Liberty League

xii

143-4

Anomalies Act [1931]

75

77-8

94

198

Arbeitslosenversicherung und Arbeitsvermittlung Gesetz [AVAG]

166-8

Austria

8

161

164

165

171

172

Baldwin, Stanley

23

42

47

53

81

199

Balfour Committee 89

Bank of England

93-4

100

Belfast 108

Belgium

16

162-3

170

177

Bentham, Jeremy 17

Betterton, Henry 44

Beveridge, William

1

9

17

29

52

197

Birkenhead 107-8

Bismarck, Otto von 15

Black Friday 39

Blanesburgh committee

40

50

Bondfield, Margaret

87

90

92

Bonus March [1932]

153-4

Booth, Charles

22

30

Brailsford, H.N. 85-6

Brüning, Heinrich 169

Bulgaria

188

190

Capital Levy 88

Charity

15

38

55

58

131-2

139

Churchill, Winston 21

City of London 96

Civil Conservation Corps [CCC]

133

152

Civil Works Administration [CWA]

135

Cole, G.D.H.

Cole, G.D.H 91

Cole, G.D.H 199.

Cole, Margaret

91

98

Communist Parties

Communist Party of Great Britain 6

Communist Party of Great Britain 25

Communist Party of Great Britain 89

Communist Party of Great Britain 115-18

Communist Party of the United States of America 148-53

Communist Party of the United States of America 156-8

German Communist Party [KPD] xiii, 8

German Communist Party [KPD] xiii, 190-1

ix, xii, 6

ix, xii, 39

ix, xii, 172

ix, xii, 187-91

Conservative Party

5

43

78

Corporatism

38-9

196

Courts of Referees

76

115

Cripps, Sir Stafford 98

Czechoslovakia

162

163

179

189-90

Daily Express 61

Daily Herald

86

Daily Mail 59

Daily Worker 50

Dalton, Hugh 100

Denmark

Depressed areas

46-8

65

69-70

Deuschnationale Volkspartei [DNVP]

166

Dolfuss, E. 171

Economic Advisory Council 91

Economic League 49-50

Economist, The 93-4

Employers

39-40

48-57

93

127

FBI xiii, 4

FBI xiii, 49

FBI xiii, 93

NCEO xiv, 4

NCEO xiv, 45-57

NCEO xiv, 93

NCEO xiv, 121

Eugenics

30-1

146

Europe

7-8

10-13

20

160-93

Evictions

104

149

Ewerbslosenfürsorge

xiii

Exceptionalism

103

Export Credit Scheme

Factory legislation 15

Federal Emergency Relief Administration [FERA]

133-5

152-3

Fields, Gracie 62

Film

62

145

Finland 163

Ford, Henry

7

132

France

19

26

Freiwillige Arbeitsdienst [FAD].

xiii

169

French revolution of

Gairloch conference [1921] 49

Geddes axe

Genuinely Seeking Work

41

83

87-8

Germany

10

12

160

161-2

Ghent system

Giffard, W. 132

Gold Standard

3

93-7

Hannington, Wal

39

80

99

114

116-18

Health

28

70-4

140-1

180-2

Henderson, Arthur 86

Hitler, Adolf

200

Hobson, J.A. 85-6

Hoover, Herbert

131-3

137

Hopkins, Harry

Housing

72

138

Hungary

Hunger marches

48

59

98-9

103-24

Independent Labour Party [ILP]

85-6

89-98

Industrial revolution 11-13

Infant mortality 21-2

Ireland 164

Italy

168

173

Jarrow

24

54-5

61

73

Kalechi, Michael 1

Keynes, John Maynard

5-6

83-5

95

Labour and the New Social Order

101

Labour camps

134

170-2

Labour Exchange Committees [LECs]

88

Labour Government [1924] 86-90

Labour Government [1929-31] 90-7

Labour Party

81-102

Langnamverein

167

Lansbury, George

105

Little Man-What Now?? 179-80

Living Wage, The 86

Lloyd George, David

38-40

83-4

Love on the Dole

31

Lyons 20

M'Gonigle, G.

71

73-4

MacDonald, Ramsay

86-97

106

109

Macmillan Committee [1931] 94-5

Macmillan, Harold 55

MacNamara, Thomas

37

Malingering

4

60

136

144

Malthus, Rev.T.R. 17

Manufacturers

Marienthal 184-5.

Marx, Karl 21-22

Mass-observation

75-6

Maternal mortality 71

May Committee [1931]

94-95

121

McShane, Harry

33

104-6

114-15

Means Test

76-7

Means Test Man

77

Migration

46-7

142

174-5

178-9

Ministry of Health

119

Ministry of Labour

44

74

Monarchy

61-2

97

Mond-Turner talks 54-5

Monetarism

2

128

Morris Committee [1929]

51

Mosley, Sir Oswald

91-2

Murray, Charles

127-8

147

Museites

154-5

National Industrial Conference Board

130

National Industrial Recovery Act

xiv

National Shipbuilders' Security Ltd. [NSS] 54

National Unemployed Workers Movement [NUWM]

6

25

27

32-3

Nazis

Netherlands

New Deal

ix

133-6

140

143

158-9

New Fabian Research Bureau 101

Newman, Sir George

70

Newspapers

59-61

118

Newsreels 62

Norway

Novels

Oral history

31-2

Orwell, George

113

Out of Work Donation [1918]

Overcrowding

Poland

Police

107

111

Poor Law

13-15

45

82

Popular front

116

157

Poverty

17-18

President 's Organisation for Unemployment Relief [POUR] 132

Prevention of Unemployment Bills 83

Programme of Immediate Action 100

Public Assistance Committees [PACs]

110

Public works

45-7

168-73

Public Works Administration

Race, racism.

88.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-240) and index.

ISBN:

9780585426143

0585426147

9781849640404

1849640408

OCLC:

697475767