Greenwood first worked as a pawnbroker's clerk aged twelve, before and after school. On leaving school aged thirteen he worked fulltime in the same job for a year before finding, aged fourteen, a new and better job as a clerk at the Pendleton offices of the Co-Operative Society. However, he was still extremely unhappy as… Continue reading New Article: ‘ “Servitude at the Desk”: Walter Greenwood and Clerical Work’.
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New Article: Walter Greenwood’s People’s War Manifesto (August 1941)
On 7 August 1941 the sister papers the Sunday Mirror and the Sunday Pictorial each published an identical article by Greenwood in which he argued that the War was being fought not just to defeat Nazi Germany but also to defeat the 'social evils' of the nineteen-thirties and to bring into being a more equal… Continue reading New Article: Walter Greenwood’s People’s War Manifesto (August 1941)
Walter Greenwood: Not Just Love on the Dole 