Great Britain And Unemployment Relief

Drawing on a range of contemporary evidence, Stephen Constantine studies the nature and causes of unemployment in Britain during the 1920s and 1930s, and analyzes the failure of successive inter-war governments to make a constructive response.

This comprehensive study into one of the most crucial and controversial elements of the welfare state provides a comparative and systematic analysis of policy changes in social security systems for unemployed people in two major European countries with different welfare traditions.