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Title Work and pay in twentieth-century Britain / edited by Nicholas Crafts, Ian Gazeley and Andrew Newell
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 369 pages) : illustrations
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
Summary 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 Britain
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Labor -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Wages -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Labor
Wages
Arbeit
Arbeitsmarkt
Werkgelegenheid.
Salarissen.
Great Britain
Großbritannien
Gro€britannien.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Crafts, N. F. R.
Gazeley, Ian.
Newell, A. (Andrew)
Oxford University Press
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