As mass unemployment returns after Covid, Tony McMahon looks back at unemployment in the 1980s which scaled horrific heights
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 in the eighties was endemic in the United Kingdom with millions out of work and an underground dole culture emerged
Ken Livingstone – always at the centre of controversy – meeting Irish Republicans and Soviet representatives