Old Hands: British Labour Camps 1929-1939

Synopsis: Exposes the history of the remote labour camps for the unemployed which were set up and run by successive British governments between 1929 and 1939. David Colledge, a Leeds social historian, acts as the researcher/detective in the film, visiting sites of former camps and interviewing some of the 150,000 long-term jobless men from ‘distressed areas’ who were sent to do hard task work in the camps.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of production: 1999
Subjects: Social Studies; Politics & government
Keywords: government; social history; unemployment; working classes; Anstey, Edgar (1907-1987); labour camps

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