Unemployed men and hungry children 1923

Here are scenes from the economic devastation of the first world war. 1) paying off hands - unemployed men 2) a school clinic 3) getting groceries on guardians tickets 4) school children taking milk prescribed at the clinic 5) an unemployed father does the laundry while his wife chars - works as a charwoman or cleaning woman. Britain suffered from the social and moral devastation of unemployment, due to trade depression and dislocation after the first world war. The repercussions of the war continued long afterwards affecting the most vulnerable in the British economy

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Affecting Chars Charwoman Clinic Continued Devastation Dislocation Groceries Guardians Hungry Laundry Moral Paying Prescribed Repercussions Suffered Tickets Unemployed Unemployment Vulnerable

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