Life on the Dole

UK. Case study of unemployment in the welsh town of merthyr tydfil to show its effects, and more particularly the economic implications and social implications, on the unemployed workers and young workers - includes an historical overview of the economic recession of the 1930s and the resulting internal migration and warns that an immediate change in government policy is essential in order to encourage investment and the establishment of manufacturing industry and that without it the life of the town will be irremediably undermined. Map.