Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction; The experience of unemployment between the wars; Movements of the unemployed in the 1920s; Parisian movement of the unemployed, 1930-33; Early regional unemployed movements, 1931-33; The Lille to Paris hunger march; After the hunger march of 1933: the rising militancy of the unemployed; The coming of the Popular Front and the unemployed movements; The Popular Front government and the unemployed; Unemployment and the war years, 1940-45; Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

About the Author

Dr Matt Perry is Lecturer in History at the University of Sunderland, UK.