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British unemployment policy in the 1920’s : a re-appraisal of Revolution of Reason and We Can Conquer Unemployment Caulfield, Peter
Abstract
Following a short postwar boom, the British economy fell into a long period of uneven growth. The single biggest symptom of interwar economic transition was the unprecedented phenomenen of persistent mass unemployment, concentrated in the export staple industries. This thesis re-evaluates two important contributions to the debate on unemployment policy in the 1920s, by political mavericks Oswald Mosley, of the Labour party, and David Lloyd George, of the Liberals. Each produced small but pithy books on unemployment: respectively, Revolutiony Reason, and Courp.jployment. Most of the historiography to date on the subject has been overly lieconomicu in its orientation, and lacking in historical context. The thesis argues for another interpretation of the two books.. It looks more deeply into the political and social environment in which the programs were developed, and focusses on the “positive” rather than the “normative” dimension of their economics. It will examine what Lloyd George and Oswald Mosley were trying to accomplish in their programs, and why the programs took the forms they did. It will also, for the first time, explicitly compare the two programs, The comparative approach will show just how different their policies were, an important aspect overlooked by the existing literature..
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British unemployment policy in the 1920’s : a re-appraisal of Revolution of Reason and We Can Conquer Unemployment
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University of British Columbia
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Date Issued |
1992
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Following a short postwar boom, the British economy fell into a
long period of uneven growth. The single biggest symptom of
interwar economic transition was the unprecedented phenomenen of
persistent mass unemployment, concentrated in the export staple
industries. This thesis re-evaluates two important contributions
to the debate on unemployment policy in the 1920s, by political
mavericks Oswald Mosley, of the Labour party, and David Lloyd
George, of the Liberals. Each produced small but pithy books on
unemployment: respectively, Revolutiony Reason, and
Courp.jployment. Most of the historiography to date on the
subject has been overly lieconomicu in its orientation, and
lacking in historical context. The thesis argues for another
interpretation of the two books.. It looks more deeply into the
political and social environment in which the programs were
developed, and focusses on the “positive” rather than the
“normative” dimension of their economics. It will examine what
Lloyd George and Oswald Mosley were trying to accomplish in
their programs, and why the programs took the forms they did. It
will also, for the first time, explicitly compare the two
programs, The comparative approach will show just how different
their policies were, an important aspect overlooked by the
existing literature..
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eng
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2008-12-23
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Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use.
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10.14288/1.0086694
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University of British Columbia
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1992-05
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Graduate
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