"If you’ve got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s."
- Barbara CastleKnown for her work on welfare and labor laws, Barbara Castle was a well-known British politician who held the position of Secretary of State for Employment from 1974 to 1976. In the early twentieth century, she experienced some turbulent times due to difficult economic circumstances. The Great Depre…