num_pages: 304
description: This work offers a study highlighting the active political nature of the unemployed rather than one of passive victims of the system whose existence signals economic decline and social injustice. Starting in 1884, the efforts of the unemployed to unite together are traced up to the formation of the National Unemployment Workers' Movement in 1939.
language: English
title: "Parish Fed Bastards": A History Of The Politics Of The Unemployed In Britain, 1884-1939
titlecomplete: "Parish Fed Bastards": A History Of The Politics Of The Unemployed In Britain, 1884-1939
ratings_count: 1
series: Contributions in Labor Studies
publisher: Praeger