Unemployment and the Great Depression

• TUC appeal in support of textile workers, 1932
• Poster advertising unemployment demonstration, February 1933
• National Unemployment Demonstration 1933

 

The 1930s in Britain have been referred to as the 'Hungry Thirties'; a picture of poverty with lines of broken, unemployed men. This was the situation for millions, but ironically it was also a time of growing prosperity for many.

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• Unemployment and the Great Depression

• Unemployment and the Great Depression