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Meantime

Unemployed workers in the East End of London are fighting to make ends meet during the recession, which began under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's leadership in 1981. Only the mother, Mavis, is employed; the father, Frank, and the couple's two kids, Colin, a timid, chronically shy individual, and Mark, an opinionated, headstrong young man, are all on the dole. Mavis is the sole breadwinner in the family. The presence of Mavis's sister Barbara and her husband John, whose financial and social success appears to be a comfortable facade over the unsaid ache of a shaky marriage, provides a stark contrast to this circumstance.

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