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. https://www.fooddeserts.org/images/000GreatBrit.htm Dr Hillary J. Shaw Visiting Fellow - Centre for Urban Research on Austerity Department of Politics and Public Policy De Montfort University, Leicester LE1 9BH http://dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/academic-staff/business-and-law/hilary-shaw/hillary-shaw.aspx www.fooddeserts.org ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CRIT-GEOG-FORUM list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CRIT-GEOG-FORUM&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CRIT-GEOG-FORUM, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/