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The debate about the living standards of British people in the 1930s has been fiercely fought for many years. One reason is that there are many sources of data to choose from, each of which varying due to the slump and recovery of the 1930s. ... The second was a smoky depressed world, stranded in the doldrums of the 19th century: ‘this England makes up the larger part of the Midlands and the North…but it is not being added to and has no new life being poured into it’. ...
Traditionally, historians have described the 1930s as the ‘devils decade’ in a bid to emphasise the pessimism that surrounds these years. The bedrock of this argument emanates form the severe unemployment experienced during these years. ... However, seasonal unemployment was not uncommon to workers, it was the unfamiliarity of years without work that caused the most distress. ... At the beginning of the 1930s there were 1,056,000 cars on the road, by 1937 this had risen to 1,780,000.
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