The level of unemployment has recently risen to a level not previously experienced during the post-war period. Most of the increase has happened in two fairly sharp movements, the first in 1966-7 and the second in 1970-1. A measure of the scale of the problem is given by the following comparison: in early 1966 the number of wholly unemployed males in Great Britain stood at a little over 200,000; and by the end of 1971 the figure had risen to over 700,000. (See chart 1, where unemployment is on an inverted scale.)

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N.I.E.S.R. Regional Papers II: Regional Unemployment Differences in Great Britain, by P. C. Cheshire, and Interregional Migration Models and their Application to Great Britain, by R. Weeden, Cambridge University Press (1973), xi+107 pp., £2 (paperback).

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