ABSTRACT
This chapter draws precisely lessons from an analysis of a particular issue -juvenile unemployment - which was an important focus of political and popular concern. It was during the early 1930s that the most acute problems of juvenile unemployment were posed, at least in so far as these were reflected in the aggregate, British statistics. The character of juvenile unemployment between the wars reflected not only the cyclical variations in the British economy as a whole, but also the complexity of local and regional employment structures. Juvenile Unemployment Centres were first established during 1918 as a temporary expedient to cope with the problems of the transition to peacetime conditions. The Juvenile Transference Scheme which shared most with the other aspects of state policy on juvenile unemployment.
