TY - BOOK ID - 78710173 TI - Unemployment and the state in Britain : the means test and protest in 1930's south Wales and north-east England PY - 2014 SN - 1526112337 9781526112330 9781526112323 1526112329 9780719086809 0719086809 1781705992 9781781705995 PB - Manchester : Manchester University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Unemployment KW - Means tests KW - Unemployed KW - Jobless people KW - Out-of-work people KW - Unemployed people KW - Unemployed workers KW - Labor supply KW - Persons KW - Assets tests (Means tests) KW - Eligibility determinations (Means tests) KW - Entitlement determinations (Means tests) KW - Income tests (Means tests) KW - Means testing KW - Economic security KW - Joblessness KW - Employment (Economic theory) KW - Full employment policies KW - Manpower policy KW - Underemployment KW - History KW - Social aspects KW - Social conditions KW - Testing KW - E-books KW - Comparative history. KW - Depression. KW - Means Test. KW - North-East England. KW - Protest. KW - Social movements. KW - Social policy. KW - South Wales. KW - Unemployment. KW - Welfare. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78710173 AB - An important and original contribution to understandings of the 1930's. Through a comparative case study of south Wales and the north-east of England, the book explores the impact of the highly controversial means test, the relationship between the unemployed and the government and the nature of some of the largest protests of the interwar period. ER -