Work and pay in twentieth-century Britain /

The 20th century was a period of unrivalled change in the British labour market. 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 B...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Oxford University Press
Other Authors:	Crafts, N. F. R., Gazeley, Ian, Newell, A. (Andrew)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Subjects:	Labor > Great Britain > History > 20th century. Wages > Great Britain > History > 20th century. Travail > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 20e siècle. Salaires > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 20e siècle. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor. POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations. Labor Wages Great Britain Arbeit Arbeitsmarkt Großbritannien Werkgelegenheid. Salarissen. Gro€britannien. 1900-1999 Electronic books. History
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Table of Contents:

Living standards / Nichaolas Crafts
Structural change / Andrew Newell
Manual work and pay, 1900-70 / Ian Gazeley
Wages and wage inequality, 1970-2000 / Florence Kondylis and Jonathan Wadsworth
Work over the life course / Paul Johnson and Asghar Zaidi
The household and the labour market / Sara Horrell
Women and work since 1970 / Sara Connolly and Mary Gregory
The 'welfare state' and the labour market / Pat Thane
Industrial relations / Chris Wrigley
Unemployment / Ian Gazeley and Andrew Newell
Education and the labour market / Michael Sanderson
Britain's twentieth-century productivity performance in international perspective / Stephen Broadberry and mary O'Mahony
Immigration and the labour market / Dudley Baines.