Wingham Rowan

Wingham Rowan (1897–1967) was a British writer and social reformer associated with proposals to address unemployment and economic insecurity. He is best known for advocating a scheme he called the “National Dividend,” intended to provide a regular income as part of wider social and labour reform. Rowan set out his ideas in books and pamphlets, including *The Right to Work*, in which he argued for practical measures to secure employment and improve social welfare. His work belongs to a broader early- to mid-20th-century tradition of British reform writing that sought new economic mechanisms to reduce poverty and stabilise livelihoods.