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Bread and Work - The Experience of Unemployment, 1918-39 (Paperback) Loot Price: R749
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Bread and Work - The Experience of Unemployment, 1918-39 (Paperback): Matt Perry

Bread and Work - The Experience of Unemployment, 1918-39 (Paperback)

Matt Perry

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Between the world wars, unemployment spread throughout the industrialized world like a disease. Focusing on the United States, Britain, and Europe, Matt Perrry 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 minimized by historianswho have tended to emphasize that prolonged unemployment was the problem of the distressed fringe.Finally, Perry argues that the lessons of the 1930s have direct relevance today since the structural problems of industrial capitalism remain inherent.

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Imprint: Pluto Press
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: 2000
First published: March 2000
Authors: Matt Perry
Dimensions: 215 x 135 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 978-0-7453-1481-5
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Poverty
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Unemployment
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Central government > Central government policies
Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Labour economics > Employment & unemployment
Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > From 1900 > General
Books > History > British & Irish history > From 1900 > General
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LSN: 0-7453-1481-3
Barcode: 9780745314815

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