One In Ten – UB40 (1981)

Description

Additional information about this, UB40 vinyl art.

UB40 – The Artist

UB40 are an English reggae and pop band, formed in 1978 in Birmingham, England. The band has had more than 50 singles in the UK Singles Chart, and has also achieved considerable international success with over 70 million records sold worldwide. The ethnic make-up of the band’s original line-up was diverse, with musicians of English, Welsh, Irish, Jamaican, Scottish and Yemeni parentage. The band’s line-up was stable for nearly 29 years, from 1979 until January, when frontman Ali Campbell left the band.

One In Ten – The Song

One In Ten  is a single by UB40, released in 1981 on their second album Present Arms. It reached number 7 on the UK Singles Chart. The song title refers to the number 9.6, being the percentage of the local workforce claiming unemployment benefit in the West Midlands in the summer of 1981 when the song was released.

The Crowd of Ten – The Shape

A circle of ten men and women one of which is cut from the group as ‘A statistic, a reminder of a world that doesn’t care’ – Lyrics from UB40’s One in Ten. According to the Department of Employment. The designation UB40 stood for Unemployment Benefit, Form 40.

Unemployment, according to the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), is persons above a specified age (usually 15) not being in paid employment or self-employment but currently available for work during the reference period. Unemployment is measured by the unemployment rate, which is the number of people who are unemployed as a percentage of the labour force (the total number of people employed added to those unemployed). Unemployment can have many sources, such as the following: new technologies and inventions, the status of the economy, which can be influenced by a recession, competition caused by globalisation and international trade, policies of the government, regulation and market Unemployment and the status of the economy can be influenced by a country through, for example, fiscal policy. Furthermore, the monetary authority of a country, such as the central bank, can influence the availability and cost for money through its monetary policy.

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