2. Analyse the various responses tounemployment in Wales between the two world wars.
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2. Analyse the various responses to unemployment in Wales between the two world wars. Unemployment in the interwar period was of course, a major problem for not only the heavy industrialised areas of south Wales and the more agriculturalised west and north, but for Great Britain as a whole. However, it may be said that World War One was not the only cause of this dramatic economic downturn, but that pre war economic planning played its part too. "...the years immediately preceding the First World War witnessed the breaking of output records right across the industrial board. However, this economic development had created an environment, and a physical and organisational infrastructure, which were both overly narrow and largely inappropriate to the circumstances of the twentieth century. The unbridled expansion of a few, heavy, capital goods industries and the failure of other industrial activities to compete effectively, resulted in an economy which...


