This time 85 years ago, late October 1936, the Jarrow Marchers would have been passing through Lincolnshire on their way down to London. Ironically a county where Karl Marx himself had earlier made many economic observations on the exploitation of farm labour.
The PM Stanley Baldwin declined to meet them - ironically he himself was out of a job 6 months later, forced to resign by another job-quitting, the Royal abdication crisis of King Edward.
Predictably, Baldwin and Edwatd enjoyed a rather comfortable new period of non-work - however -
The Marchers, recieved 2 things on returning by special train to Jarrow, 1) A hero's welcome, and 2), a cut in unemployment benefit as they has 'made themselves unavailable for work'. Plus ca change, modern neoliberalism.
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Dr Hillary J. Shaw
Visiting Fellow - Centre for Urban Research on Austerity
Department of Politics and Public Policy
De Montfort University, Leicester
LE1 9BH
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