Jarrow is best known as the town that gave its name to the Jarrow
March of 1936. In November 1935 Jarrow chose Ellen Wilkinson as its
Labour MP. A month later in a speech in parliament she challenged
the government to address mass unemployment in the shipyards:
`skilled fitters, men who have built destroyers and battleships and
the finest passenger ships ... The years go on and nothing is done
... this is a desperately urgent matter... ' The Town That Was
Murdered is her well-researched survey of Jarrow: local and labour
history, the impact of poverty, the hateful misery of state relief,
the history of shipbuilding, and the combined power of city and
bank finance and shipbuilding magnates - in the UK and abroad - who
drove local firms into bankruptcy and destroyed jobs. The book
helped the drive for a Welfare State, and the Labour government of
1945. It is a historical document, but as finance looks to relocate
investments, it still resonates today.
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