War and progress
Subtitle: Britain, 1914-1945
By: Peter Dewey
Series: Longman economic and social history of Britain
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 377
ISBN-13: 9781315846194
Subjects: History; Economic conditions; Social conditions; World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1939-1945; Histoire; Conditions économiques; Conditions sociales; Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945; Economic history
Notes: "First published 1997 by Addison Wesley Longman"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. British economy and society in the early twentieth century; title: ch. 2. The First World War; title: ch. 3. Population, social change and the labour force, 1919-39; title: ch. 4. Government in the 1920s : economic functions and policies; title: ch. 5. Growing and declining industries after 1918; title: ch. 6. External trade and finance, 1918-29; title: ch. 7. Employment and unemployment in the 1920s; title: ch. 8. Economic and social welfare in the 1920s; title: ch. 9. Town, country and housing, 1918-39; title: ch. 10. Leisure between the wars; title: ch. 1. Slump and depression, 1929-31; title: ch. 12. The 1931 crisis and changes in policy; title: ch. 13. Economic recovery and growth in the 1930s; title: ch. 14. Unemployment and economic and social welfare in the 1930s; title: ch. 15. Rearmament and the war economy, 1935-45; title: ch. 16. Civilian life in the Second World War; title: ch. 17. The national balance sheet, 1900-45.