John Strachey
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Society
The unemployed under the New Deal
- 24 April 2008
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Taken from The New Statesman 17 March 1934
During the Great Depression of the 1930s, mass unemployment affected the industrial state of Pennsylvania more than many others. John Strachey, a leading Marxist intellectual at the time and later a Labour government minister, visited the small town of York to see how those without wages survived. His restrained article showed how debilitating the lack of a proper support system for the unemployed was early in President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal.
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