How did the depression affect Britain?

How did the depression affect Britain?

1. Empolyment

   • world slump, effects were devastating
   • employers and employees
   • businesses crashes
     • others struggled
       • laid off workers
   • rose unemplyemnt

2. Politics

   • left to the businessmen
   • minority didn't know what to do
   • Mosley
     • called goverment spending
       • rejected
   • 1931 National Goverment

3. Economy

   • collapse of post-war boom
   • increased competition
   • General Strike
   • decline in mining and steel

4. British People

   • lost jobs
     • no wages/couldn't buy
   • dole
     • means test to qualify
       • Public Assistance Committees, investigate finances
     • offended and fustrated
   • Unempolyment led to poverty
     • affected health (physical&mental)