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