How far do the sources suggest that the unemployment problem between the wars has been exaggerated?

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How far do the sources suggest that the unemployment problem between the wars has been exaggerated?

Between the two world wars Britain was hit by widespread unemployment. This was because the old staple industries such as coal, iron, steel, cotton and shipbuilding went into decline. People who worked in these industries lost their jobs resulting in large areas of unemployment. The worst hit areas were South Wales, Midlands, North, and Scotland. In this essay I will be examining the seven sources. I shall find out if historians and authors have exaggerated this period of depression.

The sources that I believe are exaggerating the depression are 1+2. Source 1 says that most families were impoverished by the depression and that they let their standards slip. This is quite believable but the book was written to make money and there for the facts are likely to be exaggerated. Although Orwell did travel the country researching I do not believe that this is the most reliable of sources.
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Source 2 was also written to make money. It gives a very bleak picture of life on the dole going into detail about the poor standards of living people were enduring and what they were thinking. Nothing written in this source can be proven because it is not possible to know what the unemployed were thinking. I the writer had not exaggerated this source it would have been boring and he would not have sold many books.

I believe that sources 3,4,5,6,and7 have not exaggerated the depression. Source 3 is from a social survey buy J B ...

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