The Industrial Age: Economy and Society in Britain since 1750

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ISBN: 9780582277670 | 0582277671
Cover: Nonspecific Binding
Copyright: 6/26/1997

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A new edition of this popular single volume survey of the British economy from industrialisation to the present day. In response to continuing demand this key text has been updated to cover a further decade of Britain's economic and social fortunes, and also reconsiders many of the original findings in the light of recent research.

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Industrialisation 1750-1830
Agriculture and rural society
Population, migration and labour supply
Towns, transport and internal trade
Foreign trade
Money, banking and finance
Manufacturing and mining
Government, war and economy
The aggregate economy
Industrial Revolution?
The Industrial Economy 1830-1914
Into the railway age
Population, migration and labour supply
The workshop of the world: manufacturing and mining
The service economy
Agriculture and rural society
Foreign trade and Empire
Banking and finance
The end of economic supremacy.
Industrialisation and Society 1750-1914
Incomes and consumption
Industrialisation and the family
Work and leisure
Ranks and classes
Employers and unions
From laissez-faire to collectivism? Government economic and social policy
Environment, economy and society
Prosperity and Problems: The Economy 1914-95
Britain and the world economy
Economic performance and government policy 1914-39
Economic performance and government policy 1939-73
Economic performance and government policy 1973-95
Population, migration and labour supply
Business organisation and management
Trade unions in the twentieth century
Banking and finance
Population and distribution
Change and decay; economic performance in the long run
Economy and Society 1914-45
Prosperity and poverty
Social and environmental policy 1914-95
Work and leisure
A middle-class society?
Appendix: Changing price levels 1750-1995
Bibliography
Sources for quotations
Glossary of terms
Maps
Index
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