Distress among Black Coats, 1923

Britain's Devastated Area: Distress among Black Coats. Where pride prevents complaint, and keeping up an appearance makes things harder: breakfast in a clerk's home before he sets out to seek employment. Of men who served as officers in the First World War, some 10, 000 are out of work in the years following. Brain-workers - clerks and so on - have come to be known as Black Coats

Clerk Clerks Complaint Devastated Harder Keeping Post-war Prevents Seek Unemployment

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