New Directions in Economic and Social History: Volume II

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Proto-industrialisation....Pages 11-22
Women’s Work and the Industrial Revolution....Pages 23-36
The French Wars (1793–1815) and Capital Formation during the Industrial Revolution....Pages 37-48
Front Matter....Pages 49-49
Road Transport and Economic Growth in the Eighteenth Century....Pages 51-63
The Railway Age....Pages 64-80
Front Matter....Pages 81-81
Labour in a Changing Economy, 1700–1850....Pages 83-96
Labour and Trade Unions in Great Britain, 1880–1939....Pages 97-110
Unemployment in Interwar Britain....Pages 111-122
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
New Insights into the History of the Family in Britain....Pages 125-135
Mortality and Public Health, 1815–1914....Pages 136-148
Poverty and Self-help: Britain in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries....Pages 149-160
Front Matter....Pages 161-161
Slowing Down and Falling Behind: Industrial Retardation in Britain after 1870....Pages 163-176
The British Coal Industry between the Wars....Pages 177-189
Recovery from the Depression in Great Britain, 1932–9....Pages 190-202
Back Matter....Pages 203-211