The Influx of Labour into London and the South East 1920-36

The accidents of administrative practice can provide fruitful opportunities for statistical analysis. It happens that one of the items of information to be found on an unemployment book is the name of the Employment Exchange at which the book was originally issued. In July every year all unemployment books are collected by the Exchanges and are afterwards deposited in the Claims and Record Office of the Ministry of Labour at Kew. Naturally the new books sent out must reproduce necessary particulars from the old ones which they replace. Since I920 the benefit and contribution records for every insured person in the country have been filed at Kew under the Office which issued his book: hence the administrative significance of the Office of origin . This means that wherever a person may have migrated since he first became insured, his unemployment book will still bear the name of the Exchange which issued it to him in the first instance. This being so, it is possible at the annual exchange of the books to discover a great deal about the movement of insured workpeople from one part of the country to another. Through the courtesy of the Ministry of Labour a Return was furnished by the South East Division, including London, in 1932 on the basis of the exchange of books in July of that year. The results of that inquiry were published in a previous issue of this journal.2 Since I932 the country has experienced a recovery from the trough of the depression; and increasing interest is being shown in the changing location

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