British Unemployment 1919 1939

Author : W. R. Garside
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521892544
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Unemployment 1919-1939 written by W. R. Garside and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-20 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1990 book is a comprehensive study of government reactions to the interwar unemployment problem. Drawing upon an extensive range of primary and secondary sources, it analyses official ameliorative policy towards unemployment and contemporary reactions to such intervention.

Author : Solomos Solomou
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521430333
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Themes in Macroeconomic History written by Solomos Solomou and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-04-18 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Characterized by mass unemployment, protectionism, diverse exchange rate regimes, the disintegration of the world trade, and poor long-term growth prospects, the interwar period was, by any standards, a remarkable one. This textbook provides a survey of the key macroeconomic questions that arose from the experience of the British economy from 1919 to 1939. A comparative approach is adopted throughout, placing the UK experience in the context of the world economy. The book continually applies economic theory to historical examples.

Author : Derek Howard Aldcroft
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Inter-war Economy written by Derek Howard Aldcroft and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Barbara Henneberry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1919-1939 Reassessed written by Barbara Henneberry and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Solomos Solomou
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521436212
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Themes in Macroeconomic History written by Solomos Solomou and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-04-18 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period between the two World Wars was remarkable; mass unemployment, protectionism, diverse exchange rate regimes, the disintegration of world trade, poor growth prospects and high business cycle volatility. This comprehensive textbook surveys key questions arising from the British economy from 1919 to 1939: Why was unemployment so high? Did a fast transition to the pre-1913 gold parity lead to a low growth equilibrium? Why were interwar business cycles so volatile? Did tariffs stimulate economic recovery in the 1930s? A comparative approach is adopted throughout. For example, the question of gold parity is contrasted with countries that allowed their currencies to depreciate. The book is aimed primarily at students studying economic history. The book continually applies economic theory to historical examples enabling students to evaluate the relevance of competing theoretical frameworks.

Author : Stephanie Ward
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526112329
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unemployment and the state in Britain written by Stephanie Ward and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unemployment and the state in Britain offers an important and original contribution to understandings of the 1930s. Through a comparative case study of south Wales and the north-east of England, the book explores the impact of the highly controversial means test, the relationship between the unemployed and the government and the nature of some of the largest protests of the interwar period. This study will appeal to students and scholars of the depression, social movements, studies of the unemployed, social policy and interwar British society.

Author : John Davis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1349275131
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Britain, 1885-1939 written by John Davis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1999-05-26 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period between 1885 and 1939 was a pivotal half century in British history, in which the Victorian political system yielded to a system far more recognisably modern, in response to popular pressure for social reform and the implications of global superpower status. Dr Davis relates these political developments to the background of social and economic change and to the consequences of Britain's position as an imperial power. Drawing extensively upon the new historical scholarship of the 1980s and 1990s, John Davis presents an original analysis of political change in a crucial period of Britain's recent past.

Author : Ian Kumekawa
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400885205
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First Serious Optimist written by Ian Kumekawa and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking intellectual biography of one of the twentieth century's most influential economists The First Serious Optimist is an intellectual biography of the British economist A. C. Pigou (1877–1959), a founder of welfare economics and one of the twentieth century's most important and original thinkers. Though long overshadowed by his intellectual rival John Maynard Keynes, Pigou was instrumental in focusing economics on the public welfare. And his reputation is experiencing a renaissance today, in part because his idea of "externalities" or spillover costs is the basis of carbon taxes. Drawing from a wealth of archival sources, Ian Kumekawa tells how Pigou reshaped the way the public thinks about the economic role of government and the way economists think about the public good. Setting Pigou's ideas in their personal, political, social, and ethical context, the book follows him as he evolved from a liberal Edwardian bon vivant to a reserved but reform-minded economics professor. With World War I, Pigou entered government service, but soon became disenchanted with the state he encountered. As his ideas were challenged in the interwar period, he found himself increasingly alienated from his profession. But with the rise of the Labour Party following World War II, the elderly Pigou re-embraced a mind-set that inspired a colleague to describe him as "the first serious optimist." The story not just of Pigou but also of twentieth-century economics, The First Serious Optimist explores the biographical and historical origins of some of the most important economic ideas of the past hundred years. It is a timely reminder of the ethical roots of economics and the discipline's long history as an active intermediary between the state and the market.

Author : Ian Gazeley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350317284
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poverty in Britain, 1900-1965 written by Ian Gazeley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How was poverty measured and defined, and how has this influenced our judgement of the change in poverty in Britain during the first sixty years of the twentieth century? During this period, a large number of poverty surveys were carried out, the methods of which altered after World War II. Commencing with Rowntree's social survey of York in 1899 and ending with Abel-Smith and Townsend's Poor and the Poorest in 1965, Ian Gazeley shows how the means of evaluation and the causes of poverty changed. Poverty in Britain, 1900-1965: - Offers a comprehensive empirical assessment of all published poverty and nutritional enquiries in this era - Reports the results of recent re-examinations of many of the more famous social surveys that took place - Considers the results of these surveys within the context of changing real incomes, the occupational structure and social provision - Evaluates the extent to which the reduction in poverty was due to the actions of the State or to increases in real income (including more continuous income from fuller employment) Detailed yet easy to follow, Ian Gazeley's book is an indispensable guide to the changing face of poverty in Britain during the first six decades of the last century.

Author : M. Levine-Clark
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113739322X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unemployment, Welfare, and Masculine Citizenship written by M. Levine-Clark and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-01-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how, from the late nineteenth century through the 1920s, British policymakers, welfare providers, and working-class men struggled to accommodate men's dependence on the state within understandings of masculine citizenship.