Interwar unemployment and poverty in the United Kingdom

The 1926 General Strike was called to highlight the wage reductions coal miners faced.

Unemployment was the dominant issue of British society during the interwar years.[1] Unemployment levels rarely dipped below 1,000,000 and reached a peak of more than 3,000,000 in 1933, a figure which represented more than 20% of the working population. The unemployment rate was even higher in areas including South Wales and Liverpool.[1] The Government extended unemployment insurance schemes in 1920 to alleviate the effects of unemployment.[2]

  1. ^ a b Laybourn, Keith (1999). Modern Britain Since 1906: a Reader. Tauris History Readers. I. B. Tauris. p. 105. ISBN 978-1-86064-237-1.
  2. ^ "The Cabinet Papers | Alleviating inter-war unemployment". Nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved 2012-10-06.