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Title: Unemployment in Britain in the 1930s


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Unemployment in Britain in the 1930s
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Aims of the lesson
  • By the end of this lesson you will learn
  • About the levels and distribution of unemployment
    in Britain during the 1930s
  • To make inferences from the sources
  • How to answer a statistic based examination
    question

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Background
  • Unemployment was highest in coal, iron, steel
    cotton and shipbuilding industries
  • North-east, Scotland and Wales were hardest hit
  • 1932 35 of miners and 62 of shipbuilders were
    unemployed
  • Not evenly spread mine closing could devastate

4
Unemployment
  • 1932 to 37 80 of new factories built in south
    east. Car making etc. Did not rely on coal
    electricity instead
  • London and South east had low unemployment
  • If you lived in the right area of the country the
    depression was something that happened to other
    people.

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Looking at statistics
  • Use DAMMIT to help you
  • What are the limitations of the statistics?
  • Where do they come from? Are they biased?
    Government figures?
  • Do not focus entirely on what the statistics say
    you cannot get big marks in the exam for this.
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