Bread and Work: The Experience of Unemployment 1918-39 - Couverture souple

Perry, Matt

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0745314813 ISBN 13 : 9780745314815

Editeur : Pluto Press, 2000

Synopsis

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

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Matt Perry teaches at the University of Sunderland. He is the author of Bread and Work (Pluto Press, 2000).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pluto Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0745314813
• ISBN 13: 9780745314815
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 264
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• Personne responsable: non disponible