1960s 1963 B+W benefits black and white crowd dole London men office post-war poverty queue Sixties Swinging Sixties unemployment waiting welfare welfare state woman working class working life

The Dole Queue

A woman on a bench is surrounded by men queueing at a Men's Unemployment Benefits Office counter, London, circa 1963 Gallery: Working Life

1960s 1963 B+W benefits black and white crowd dole London men office post-war poverty queue Sixties Swinging Sixties unemployment waiting welfare welfare state woman working class working life