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No Justice Without a Struggle: The National Unemployed Workers' Movement in the North East of England 1920?1940
No Justice Without a Struggle The National Unemployed Workers' Movement in the North East of England 19201940 Author:Don Watson Unemployment in the 1930s conjures up images of the Jarrow March?but there was far more to unemployed protest than that. This full regional history of the National Unemployed Workers? Movement portrays the impact of mass unemployment, poverty, and oppressive benefits systems, and analyzes the reactions of the trade unions and the Communist and L... more »abour parties. It also discusses questions of gender, opposition to fascism, and local electoral politics. The book uses oral history and draws on state, police, and trade union records, Communist and NUWM archives together with comprehensive newspaper coverage.« less