Reinventing the dole: a history of the Unemployment Assistance Board 1934-40
This previously unpublished material for a book by Tony Lynes, based on official papers from the time, describes the origins and history of the Unemployment Assistance Board, the central government department which came into existence in July 1934 to administer means-tested assistance to the unemployed. The material is published in full here under a Creative Commons licence.
Our Pensions
Our Pensions: a policy for a Labour Government, by Tony Lynes, was first published as a pamphlet in August 1996. You can read 'Our Pensions' here updated in 2001, complete with a foreword by Paul Flynn MP. Alternatively, download the whole pamphlet as a text file
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