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Unemployment
About this book
This book was originally published in 1981 at a time when mass unemployment had returned to the United Kingdom. Now reissued with a new Preface by the author's literary executor, the essays in this volume discuss in detail the damage that was being done to the community and the economy at national and regional levels as a result of government policy. There are chapters on the political and economic aspects of the problem, on the comparison with the inter-war years, on youth unemployment and on unemployment in each of the regions worst affected. The collection as a whole provides an authoritative overview of a central political issue of the late 20th Century but one which still has resonance today as the post-Covid, post-Brexit UK economy teeters on the edge of recession.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Original Title Page
- Original Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- New Preface to the Reissue of 2024
- Preface
- Commentary
- Unemployment Now and in the 1930s
- View from a Disaster Area: Unemployed Youth in Merseyside
- Economic Aspects of Unemployment
- Political Aspects of Unemployment: the Alternative Policy
- The North East: Back to the 1930s?
- De-Industrialisation and Unemployment in the West Midlands
- South Yorkshire: The Economic and Social Impact of Unemployment
- The Politics of Unemployment in Scotland
- Unemployment and Wages in Northern Ireland
- Wage Bargaining and Unemployment
- Wales: Will Unemployment Breed Unrest or Apathy?
- Unemployment: The Past and Future of a Political Problem