19th Century History
British social policy
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Charity
Confer
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Distress Committee
Employment
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Essex
Farm Colony
Follow
Held
historical unemployment solutions
Hollesley Bay
Identity
Independent Labour Party
Labour Colonies
labour colonies Britain
Labour Colony
Labour Exchanges
labour migration history
Local Government Board
Payment
Philanthropy
Poor Law
poverty relief strategies
Social Democratic Federation
state intervention employment
Sterling
Unemployed Workman
Unemployed Workmen Act
Unlimited
Wandered
West Ham
Wo
women workforce history
Working Man
Workless
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780367335298
- Weight: 970g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 17 Jun 2022
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This volume explores primarily late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century efforts to solve the problem of unemployment in the context of the new understandings of ‘unemployment’. The sources show the continuing power of discovering men’s commitment to work by finding ways to make them work. This volume focuses on emigration to put unemployed men to work in the British colonies, the various projects to employ urban men without work on the land, and the increasing ‘Intervention of the State’ in efforts like emigration and labour colonies. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this volume will be of great interest to students of British History.
Marjorie Levine-Clark is Professor of History at University of Colorado Denver, USA
