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The miner has a meal during difficult times, the world is recovering from a recession, the image shows the couples acceptance to the situation. Though employment is up, the employed work in bad conditions.
Unemployment down
1937 Unemployment continued to drop to 14.3% dropping some 6.7% from the previous year
Historical
We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in history of any land. The poorhouse is vanishing among us
Herbert Hoover, A year before the Wall Street Crash.
Historical
Historical
The failure of trade unions to challenge government is illustrated in this Punch cartoon of 19 May 1926.
Contemporary
Frits and Vera Eriksson, re-Lngsele, 1966
by Sune Jonsson
Contemporary
Coal Mining, Dhanbad, Bihar, India,1989
by Sebastio Salgado
Conclusion
Bibliography
The People History (s.d). 1937 Unemployment continued to drop to 14.3% dropping some 6.7% from the previous year At: http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1937.html Yass, Marion. (1973) We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in history of any land. The poorhouse is vanishing among us The great depression. London: Wayland Publishers. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/usa/walld epressionrev1.shtmlb
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