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Description: | This placard relates to the campaign against the Unemployment Act of 1934, which was organised by the National Unemployed Workers Movement. The act established a new system for administering unemployment benefit but contained several controversial measures, particularly compulsory training in labour camps.
The campaign against the act coincided with the celebrations for King George V's silver jubilee in 1935. This placard is one of a series contrasting the wealth of the royal family with the poverty of the unemployed. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Museum of London | Rights holder: | Museum of London | Subjects: | work Power and Politics | Temporal: | 1933-1936 | Source: | Museum of London | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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