This book provides a genuinely comparative picture of economic growth in Europe after 1945.
Written by leading British historians and economists, this volume looks at how fundamental changes in British labour markets throughout the 20th century transformed the lives of the British people.
In recent years, traditional views of a rapidly growing British economy between 1700 and 1850 have been overturned by convincing new research indicating that British economic growth was, in fact,...
Covering topics from lifetime work patterns and education to unemployment and the welfare state, this volume charts the transformation of work and pay across the 20th century. It provides the labour focused history of Britain.
Judgments about Britain's economic performance are constantly being made, often based on inadequate evidence. In this paper, Professor Nicholas Crafts, one of Britain's leading economic historians, assembles the evidence, places...
This volume revisits the topic of postwar growth armed not only with new theoretical ideas, but also with the experience of the 1980s.
This book provides a genuinely comparative picture of economic growth in Europe after 1945.