Unemployment in Interwar Britain

New Evidence from London

Bibliographic Data

ID4010266
AuthorsBarry Eichengreen (0000-0002-1683-4486, corresponding author)
Year1986
Volume17
Issue2
Pages335
Publication date1986-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-1953 • E-ISSN: 1530-9169
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/204769
OpenAlexW2091032483
LanguageEN
Citations received8

This paper reassesses the pattern of unemployment in interwar Britain from a microeconomic perspective. A 10 per cent sample of some 27,000 case record cards completed in 1929-31 as part of the New Survey of London Life and Labour is used as a basis for cross-section analysis of unemployment incidence among adult male wage earners. To provide a basis for comparison, these results for the interwar period are set against a comparable analysis for the postwar years using the General Household Survey for 1975. The findings indicate that unemployment was concentrated among certain segments of the labour force and suggest that a disproportionate burden was borne by the poor and disadvantaged, thus providing the first systematic support for those views of contemporary observers so often invoked by subsequent historians

Archaeology · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economic history · Economics · Interwar period · Keynesian economics · Unemployment · World War II · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Political and Economic history of UK and US

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