O'Donnell, R. and Petts, D. (2019) ''Rural' rhetoric in 1930s unemployment Relief Schemes.', Rural history., 30 (1). pp. 53-69.
Abstract
This article examines the role of particular ideas of the countryside in unemployment relief schemes. While interwar thinking on the countryside has received attention, it has not been examined in the specific context of unemployment relief. This article uses four case studies from North East England, namely the Team Valley Trading Estate (Gateshead), Hamsterley Forest Instructional Centre (Durham), Swarland model village (Northumberland) and Heartbreak Hill (Cleveland). All four projects took different approaches to the unemployment problem, but all used some form of rural rhetoric. The ways in which the projects deployed images of the countryside creatively recombined a wide range of ideas to suit their needs rather than being rigidly confined by particular schools of thought.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Full text: | (AM) Accepted Manuscript Download PDF (567Kb) |
| Status: | Peer-reviewed |
| Publisher Web site: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956793319000049 |
| Publisher statement: | This article has been published in a revised form in Rural history https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/rural-history. This version is free to view and download for private research and study only. Not for re-distribution, re-sale or use in derivative works. © copyright holder. |
| Date accepted: | 08 January 2019 |
| Date deposited: | 30 January 2019 |
| Date of first online publication: | 29 March 2019 |
| Date first made open access: | No date available |
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