Young Boomers in the 1980s weren’t all rich and privileged – millions were out of work and in poverty, as Tony McMahon discovers
Young Boomers in the 1980s weren’t all rich and privileged – millions were out of work and in poverty, as Tony McMahon discovers
As mass unemployment returns after Covid, Tony McMahon looks back at unemployment in the 1980s which scaled horrific heights
Love on the Dole was tough in the 1930s and still challenging in 1981 when the Jobs Express train campaign saw one couple pop the question
Unemployment was so bad even an ex-mayor was out of work
County Hall – when Ken Livingstone headed up the GLC
Unemployment in the eighties was endemic in the United Kingdom with millions out of work and an underground dole culture emerged
High youth unemployment – we knew it too…back in 1980