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Monday, 1 February 2010

Signing on centenary: 100 years on the dole - Times Online

Signing on centenary: 100 years on the dole - Times Online

Signing on centenary: 100 years on the dole

What do Tracey Emin, Duncan Bannatyne and Jim Knight have in common? They have all received unemployment benefit

Unemployed workers sign on the dole in a Londonderry Labour Exchange. 1966.
Mike Pattenden

One of the harsh lessons of any recession is that no one is safe — as Jim Knight, the Employment Minister, would be first to agree, having been jobless himself during the Eighties. “It wasn’t a very joyful experience,” the 44-year-old MP recalls. “You had to go to two offices to sign on back then, which was mad, and you queued up to find staff standing behind Perspex screens, just like images everyone remembers from The Full Monty.”

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