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A Social History of Student VolunteeringDigging with the Unemployed: The Rise of a Student Social Consciousness? 1932–1939

A Social History of Student Volunteering: Digging with the Unemployed: The Rise of a Student... [An article in the University of London Magazine identified the academic year 1932–1933 as marked by “a rapid growth of a new student attitude, chiefly characterised by an awakening to social problems” and the resultant widening of activities of student organizations such as the National Union of Students (NUS) and the Student Christian Movement (SCM).1 Similarly, a 1932 conference of representatives of International Student Organizations meeting in Paris chose “The University and Social Service” to be its main topic because it was a “major problem” facing universities worldwide.2 Such sentiments were echoed in many other student publications of the early 1930s, while Brian Simon later pinpointed 1933 as a key date for understanding the whole student movement of the interwar period.3 This chapter discusses the ways in which students in Britain engaged with the widespread problems of the Depression in order to explore the shifting relationships between students and society. The student response to unemployment included a renewed interested in social study, offering material aid and moral support to Hunger Marchers, participation in experimental workcamp projects and organizing residential camps for the unemployed in the 1930s. Such changes may be seen as one outcome of the heightened political consciousness that marked universities and the rise of a student social conscience in the interwar period.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Social History of Student VolunteeringDigging with the Unemployed: The Rise of a Student Social Consciousness? 1932–1939

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Palgrave Macmillan US
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2014
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978-1-349-47523-0
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10.1057/9781137363770_6
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[An article in the University of London Magazine identified the academic year 1932–1933 as marked by “a rapid growth of a new student attitude, chiefly characterised by an awakening to social problems” and the resultant widening of activities of student organizations such as the National Union of Students (NUS) and the Student Christian Movement (SCM).1 Similarly, a 1932 conference of representatives of International Student Organizations meeting in Paris chose “The University and Social Service” to be its main topic because it was a “major problem” facing universities worldwide.2 Such sentiments were echoed in many other student publications of the early 1930s, while Brian Simon later pinpointed 1933 as a key date for understanding the whole student movement of the interwar period.3 This chapter discusses the ways in which students in Britain engaged with the widespread problems of the Depression in order to explore the shifting relationships between students and society. The student response to unemployment included a renewed interested in social study, offering material aid and moral support to Hunger Marchers, participation in experimental workcamp projects and organizing residential camps for the unemployed in the 1930s. Such changes may be seen as one outcome of the heightened political consciousness that marked universities and the rise of a student social conscience in the interwar period.]

Published: Nov 4, 2015

Keywords: International Student; Social History; Student Volunteer; Socialist Society; Interwar Period

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