← Walter GreenwoodLove on the Doleby Walter GreenwoodSocial realist novel depicting working-class life and unemployment in Depression-era LancashireFind on Amazon↗About the authorWalter GreenwoodGreenwood was a self-educated Salford writer whose Love on the Dole brought the reality of Depression unemployment to a mass readership. The novel was adapted for stage and screen and became a landmark of working-class fiction.More by Walter GreenwoodHis Worship the Mayor→The Secret Kingdom→There Was a Time→Standing Room Only→