South Wales in the 1930s :: Papers

South Wales in the 1930s 1. book of factss 1 and 2 give many reasons for poverty in South Wales in the 1930s, Unemployment but being the most significant as it was the cause of almost totally the poverty in South Wales at this time there were a number of causes for unemployment listed in source 1 such as- The dissect of the post-war economic boom Increased competition from abroad The General occupy The decline in the mining and steel industries The great depression on the whole of these factors caused mass unemployment in South Wales in the 1930s almost to the loony toons where nearly three quarters of the population in South Wales were unemployed. Source 2 indicates that all hope had left the unemployed and their want to take note work may have almost deteriorated from constant rejection causing peradventure their want to keep a decent standard of living to slow decline into poverty. 2. Poverty affected the people of Wales in many c ontrary ways, Source three indicates that it had a dramatic change in peoples political views, it depicts a miners hunger march to Bristol in 1931, the marchers ar imagen to be carrying a banner bearing the communist hammer and sickle with the words crusade or starve written on in this is also an acronym for sos. Although the miners are on a hunger march to show the poverty in south Wales we notice they are well dressed this is because the miners were a uplifted people, they did not want to beg the government they just wanted to show that they were starving and that they needed work and help to get back on their feet for themselves. There is almost a sort of irony in this protrude as these miners are photographed marching past food signs, perhaps the lensman was trying to depict the ignorance of the rest of the country to the miners predicament. Source four describes the see red over the Means Test and a protest about this privateness invasion.