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The means test is perhaps best recognized in the United States as the test used by courts to determine eligibility for Title 11 of the United States Code Chapter 7 or Chapter 13 bankruptcy. During the Great Depression in the 1930s, the test was used to screen applicants for such programs as Home Relief, and starting in the 1960s, for benefits ...
Hunger marches to London had previously taken place in 1922–23, 1929 [2] and 1930, [3] and 1927 had seen a South Wales miners' march. [4] Due to the Great Depression and mass unemployment, throughout 1932 there was a profound atmosphere of unrest across Britain with "high tension across the country", "running battles between police and demonstrators" and "violent clashes ... between the ...
Hunger marches. This photo was taken of a Canadian hunger march forming up in 1932 in Alberta. A short time later, as it set off to the legislature a few blocks away, it was dispersed by billy-club-wielding constables on foot and horseback. Hunger marches are a form of social protest that arose in the United Kingdom during the early 20th century.
The National Unemployed Workers' Movement was a British organisation set up in 1921 by members of the Communist Party of Great Britain. It aimed at drawing attention to the plight of unemployed workers during the post-First World War slump, the 1926 General Strike and later the Great Depression, and at fighting the Means Test.
Jarrow March. Coordinates: 54°58′53″N 01°29′24″W. Jarrow marchers en route to London. The Jarrow March of 5–31 October 1936, also known as the Jarrow Crusade, [n 1] was an organised protest against the unemployment and poverty suffered in the English town of Jarrow during the 1930s. Around 200 men, or "Crusaders" as they preferred ...
Unemployment was the dominant issue of British society during the interwar years. [1] Unemployment levels rarely dipped below 1,000,000 and reached a peak of more than 3,000,000 in 1933, a figure which represented more than 20% of the working population. The unemployment rate was even higher in areas including South Wales and Liverpool. [1]
Walter Brierley (1900–1972) was an English novelist active in the 1930s and one of the Birmingham Group of writers. His first book Means Test Man has been called “one of the most powerful and original novels of that decade.” Born in Waingroves, Derbyshire, to a family of miners, Brierley left school at 13 and started work at the local ...
This workhouse in Nantwich, Cheshire, dates from 1780. The English Poor Laws[2] were a system of poor relief in England and Wales [3] that developed out of the codification of late-medieval and Tudor-era laws in 1587–1598. The system continued until the modern welfare state emerged in the late 1940s. [1]