Parish-Fed Bastards: A History of the Politics of the Unemployed in Britain, 1884-1939

by Richard Flanagan

This volume breaks tradition with previous studies of the unemployed in Britain. It offers a history highlighting the active political nature of the unemployed, rather than a depiction of them as passive victims of the system whose existence signals economic decline and social injustice. Beginning with the first appearance of the jobless as a political group in 1884, Richard Flanagan reduces large amounts of available information on their activities--...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313274398
• ISBN13: 9780313274398
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.6"