War and Progress: Britain 1914-1945

This is an account of how the daily lives of ordinary peoples were changed, profoundly and permanently, by these three momentous decades 1914-1945. Often depicted in negative terms Peter Dewey finds a much more positive pattern in the wealth of evidence he lays before us. His is a story of economic achievement, and the emergence of a new sense of social community in the nation, rather than a saga of disenchantment and decline.

British Economy and Society in the Early Twentieth Century
The First World War
Population, Social Change and the Labour Force, 1919-39
Government in the 1920s: Economic Functions and Policies
Growing and Declining Industries After 1918
External Trade and Finance, 1918-29
Employment and Unemployment in the 1920s
Economic and Social Welfare in the 1920s
Town, Country and Housing 1918-1939
Leisure Between the Wars
Slump and Depression, 1929-31
The 1931 Crisis and Changes in Policy
Economic Recovery and Growth in the 1930s
Unemployment and Economic and Social Welfare in the 1930s
Rearmament and the War Economy, 1935-45
Civilian Life in the Second World War
The National Balance Sheet, 1900-1945
Appendix: British Economic Growth Rates in the UK, 1870-1948
Essay on Further Reading
Bibliography
Index
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