New Left Review I/37, May-June 1966

J.N.K.

On the Dole

Work

We have now been running the series on work for a year. For its second year we present a piece on the obverse of work—unemployment. Often the first line of defence is laughter—a laughter that becomes bitter as cynicism and self-ridicule erode the dignity that remains. It is in this manner that a miner on the dole describes his and the fate of many like him who have been declared redundant. Aged 50, jnk lives in what was a mining community in Scotland, and his wife and eight children.

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