From Depression to Devolution
Subtitle: Economy and Government in Wales, 1934-2006
Publisher: Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781783169580
Subjects: Wales, economic conditions; Wales, politics and government; Decentralization in government; Home rule
Description: From Depression to Devolution is the first book in more than thirty years to offer an extended, detailed look at the Welsh economy in the twentieth century. Leon Gooberman tracks the Welsh economy through the many far-reaching economic upheavals of that time, which ranged from depression to war to deindustrialization to international economic integration. Throughout, Gooberman shows, Wales was a laboratory for the United Kingdom’s experiments in government intervention in the economy, from clearance of land left derelict by industry to investments in urban renewal. --