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EFFECTS OF THE DEPRESSION

value of british exports halved

unemployment doubled to 20%

public spending cut, taxes raised

put industrial areas in poverty

depressed the economy

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

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

THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT

cut benefit rate by 10%

passed laws to help the unemployed

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%

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

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

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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