The Unemployment Policy of the National Government, 1931–1936
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8959570 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fredric Miller (Temple University, corresponding author), Fredric M Miller |
| Year | 1976 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 453-476 |
| Publication date | 1976-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Historical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-246X • E-ISSN: 1469-5103 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0018246x00010244 |
| OpenAlex | W2152829987 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 15 |
The British response to the mass unemployment of the 1930s was in striking contrast to that of the other major industrialized countries. Only in Britain was a policy of accepting the apparent logic of capitalism, and waiting out the slump, successfully maintained in a reasonably stable, democratic setting. In an article on ‘The New Deal, National Socialism and the Great Depression’, John A. Garraty wrote that ‘in both Roosevelt's America and Hitler's Germany economic objectives were subordinated whenever necessary to political aims’. In neither country was there ‘any consistently held theory about either the causes of the depression or how to end it’ Britain under the National government represents almost precisely the opposite case. First, the government's policy of minimal direct intervention to relieve unemployment was directed towards achieving its central objective of ensuring that the depression would cause no fundamental changes in existing economic and social relationships. Immediate political considerations were subordinated to this overriding goal, Secondly, the government's approach, though not all of its particular actions, was based on a rational, comprehensive and widely accepted theoretical foundation
Capitalism · Communism · Democracy · Depression (economics · Development economics · Economic growth · Economic interventionism · Economic policy · Economics · Government (linguistics · Great Depression · Keynesian economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Socialism · Unemployment · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Public Administration
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Economic and Political Reactions to the World Economic Crisis of the 1930s in Six European Countries
The “Good Citizen” as a “Respectable Worker
Unemployed Workers, 'Enforced Leisure' and Education for 'The Right Use of Leisure' in Britain in the 1930s
Relocating Pastorian Medicine
The Audit of Regional Policy
The British State and the Structure of Political Opportunity
Republicanism, Railway Imperialism, and the French Empire in Africa, 1879–1889
Sir Horace Wilson, 1900–1935
Unemployment and Vagrancy in the 1930s
The Keynesian Revolution in Whitehall
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940.
Unemployment and politics
The New Deal, National Socialism, and the Great Depression
The Life of John Maynard Keynes
Economics and Policy
An Analysis of Unemployment III
An Analysis of Unemployment
The Life of John Maynard Keynes
Public Investment and the Trade Cycle in Great Britain
The Post-War Unemployment Problem
A Survey of the Social Structure of England and Wales
Depression and Recovery? British Economic Growth 1918-39
Economics and Policy. A Historical Study
The Inter-War Economy
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,26 |
| Citation span | 1983 - 2021 (39) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |