Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Perry, Matt, 1967-

Publication

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

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Details

Description

xv, 244 p.; 22 cm.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Geschichte 1918-1939
• Unemployment > Great Britain > History > 20th century
• Unemployment > United States > History > 20th century
• Unemployment > Europe > History > 20th century

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

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

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• 1. Unemployment: History and Perspectives -- Unemployment and industrial capitalism -- Unemployment and the demise of the Poor Law -- 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? -- Conclusion -- 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 -- Conclusion.

ISBN

• 0745314813
• 0745314864 (hbk)

LCCN

^^^99040488^

OCLC

• 42002644
• SCSB-10611098

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library