Richard Flanagan Parish-Fed Bastards: A History of the Politics of the Unemployed

A study highlighting the active political nature of the unemployed rather than one of passive victims of the system. The efforts of the unemployed to unite are traced from 1884, when they were first viewed as a group, up to the formation of the National Unemployment Workers Movement in 1939. | Richard Flanagan Parish-Fed Bastards: A History of the Politics of the Unemployed