In the 1930s, Lady Clough Anson ran a canteen for unemployed workers at Waterloo Road in London.
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TopFotoMuch of the period between the post-war economic slump and the early 1930s was marked by high unemployment. As governments economised, conditions under which the unemployed claimed benefits changed.
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Further reading
- Digby, A., British Welfare Policy From Workhouse to Workfare (London: Faber, 1989)
- Deacon, A., In Search of the Scrounger: the Administration on Unemployment Insurance in Britain, 1920-1931. (London: G. Bell, 1976)
- Gilbert, B., British Social Policy, 1914-1939 (London: Batsford, 1970)
- Gilbert, B., The evolution of national insurance in Great Britain : the origins of the welfare state (London: Michael Joseph, 1966)
