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A Life Without Work

Richard Bilton

Guy Smith

Barbara Arvanitidis

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A Life Without Work: Episode 2

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BBC Two - A Life Without Work, Episode 2

Richard Bilton compares the lives of the jobless in 1910 and nowadays.

Richard Bilton investigates unemployment, uncovering startling parallels between the lives of the jobless in 1910 and now, as well as the incredible advances brought by reform.

A hundred years on from a ground-breaking investigation into unemployment, Richard Bilton compares the lives of the jobless in 1910 with their modern-day counterparts. A century ago single mums lived on the brink of starvation - now our costly benefits system means that children do not go hungry. But has the welfare state created new problems? And as the government embarks on the biggest shake-up of benefits for a generation, what lessons can we learn from research into unemployment carried out a hundred years ago?

In 1910, philanthropist and chocolate tycoon Seebohm Rowntree wrote a radical book about unemployment, exposing for the first time the terrible conditions faced by Britain's jobless. In the second of two programmes looking at a century of unemployment, Richard Bilton uncovers startling parallels between then and now - including a man living in a tent and reliant on casual labour - as well as the incredible advances that 100 years of reform have brought us. But he discovers that for some, the solutions to ending a life without work remain as out of reach as they did a century ago.

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Richard Bilton follows up a one hundred year old investigation into unemployment

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