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Title: | Unemployment and public policy in interwar Japan | ||||
Author: | Kato, Michiya. |
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0000 0001 3595 4814
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Awarding Body: | University of Birmingham | ||||
Current Institution: | University of Birmingham | ||||
Date of Award: | 2002 | ||||
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This thesis focuses on the nature and extent of interwar Japanese unemployment and
public policy responses to it, issues which remain relatively neglected in the
historiography. It details the spasmodic attention devoted by government to the
unemployed in the immediate aftermath of the First World War and how attitudes
towards the out of work evolved in response to the changes in the economic
environment, both national and international, down to 1938. Particular attention is
paid to contemporary attitudes both inside and outside of government towards the
related issues of public works, unemployment insurance and industrial rationalization.
In addition, unemployment policy is examined in the context of wider budgetary and
fiscal concerns, principally with regard to the restoration and abandonment of the gold
standard, and in light of the efforts made from the early 1920s to improve upon the
rudimentary estimates available to policy makers of the scale and nature of
unemployment problem.
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Supervisor: | Not available | Sponsor: | Not available | ||
Qualification Name: | Thesis (Ph.D.) | Qualification Level: | Doctoral | ||
EThOS ID: | uk.bl.ethos.269775 | DOI: | Not available | ||
Keywords: | Unemployed | ||||
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