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UNIT 1
- EFFECTS OF THE DEPRESSION
- value of british exports halved
- put industrial areas in poverty
- put industrial areas in poverty
- unemployment doubled to 20%
- public spending cut, taxes raised
- depressed the economy
- depressed the economy
- value of british exports halved
- HUNGER MARCHES
- unemployed and workers in badly affected industries protested
- regularly marched to london
- organised by National Unemployed Workers' movement
- tried to make a point that unemployed weren't lazy
- unemployed and workers in badly affected industries protested
- UNEMPLOYMENT IN 1930'S
- highest in coal, iron and steel, cotton and shipbuilding industries
- 34.5% of miners were unemployed
- unemployment was not spread equally
- 80% new factories built in London
- employment kept up in London
- 80% new factories built in London
- highest in coal, iron and steel, cotton and shipbuilding industries
- THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT
- cut benefit rate by 10%
- passed laws to help the unemployed
- cut benefit rate by 10%
- GOVERNMENT REACTION TO UNEMPLOYMENT
- government in debt
- depression made it hard to borrow money
- made huge spending cuts e.g. cutting wages of workers by 10-15%
- government in debt
- MEANS TEST
- allowed officials to go to benefit claimers homes to see if they were poor enough
- found out family savings and earnings of benefit claimers
- allowed officials to go to benefit claimers homes to see if they were poor enough
- EMPLOYMENT EXCHANGE
- go at least once a week to register as looking for work and to collect money
- those not on benefit had to go through means test to prove they were poor enough
- go at least once a week to register as looking for work and to collect money
- PROBLEMS IN JARROW
- had grown with the rise of shipbuilding but was in serious decline
- Jarrow council decided to petition to parliament asking for new ships
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- had grown with the rise of shipbuilding but was in serious decline