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Love on the Dole (1933) is the best-remembered novel about the unemployed during the Depression, and has never been out of print. Its working-class author, Walter Greenwood, went overnight from being unemployed in Salford to being a best-selling writer. This is a book-length study of this important work. It explores in detail what made the novel so influential among thirties and forties readers, analyses the considerable differences between the novel, play and film versions and puts the public response to 'Love on the Dole' back into its full historical context.

Working class in literature. --- Greenwood, Walter, --- Fluck, Alan, --- Gow, Ronald, --- Love on the dole (Motion picture) --- Great Britain --- Social conditions --- Labour history --- 1930s --- Working-class writers --- The Depression --- cultural history --- nineteen thirties --- 1930s novels --- 1940s British film --- British film --- Hardcastles