Work and Pay in 20th Century Britain

Work and Pay in 20th Century Britain

Author: N. F. R. Crafts

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2007-01-11

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 019921266X

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Written by leading British historians and economists, this volume looks at how fundamental changes in British labor markets throughout the 20th century transformed the lives of the British people.


Work and Pay in Twentieth-century Britain

Work and Pay in Twentieth-century Britain

Author: N. F. R. Crafts

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 9780199280582

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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.


Britain in the Twentieth Century

Britain in the Twentieth Century

Author: Charles More

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-05-22

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 1317867777

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In a century of rapid social change, the British people have experienced two world wars, the growth of the welfare state and the loss of Empire. Charles More looks at these and other issues in a comprehensive study of Britain’s political, economic and social history throughout the twentieth century. This accessible new book also engages with topical questions such as the impact of the Labour party and the role of patriotism in British identity.


20th Century Britain

20th Century Britain

Author: Nicole Robertson

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-12-30

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13: 1000828301

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20th Century Britain provides an authoritative and accessible survey of contemporary research on economic activity, society, political development and culture. Written by leading academics, it examines recent advances in scholarship and gives a grounding in established approaches and topics. The first part comprises thematic essays covering the whole of the twentieth century, including chapters on the economy, economic management, big business, parliamentary politics, leisure, work, health, international economic relations and empire. It uncovers key areas of equality and diversity in chapters on women, living standards, social mobility, ethnicity and multiculturalism, and gender and sexuality. The most recent subfields of historical studies are also explored, including disability history and environmental economic history. The second part focuses on seismic events and topics covering shorter timeframes, including the World Wars, interwar Depression, Britain and European integration, sexual behaviours, civil society, the 1960s cultural revolution and resisting racism. This collection provides an essential guide to current academic thinking on the most important elements of twentieth-century British history and is a useful tool for all students and scholars interested in modern Britain.


Knowing Their Place

Knowing Their Place

Author: Lucy Delap

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2011-06-16

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 0191618225

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Historians have traditionally seen domestic service as an obsolete or redundant sector from the middle of the twentieth century. Knowing Their Place challenges this by linking the early twentieth-century employment of maids and cooks to later practices of employing au pairs, mothers' helps, and cleaners. Lucy Delap tells the story of lives and labour within British homes, from great houses to suburbs and slums, and charts the interactions of servants and employers along with the intense controversies and emotions they inspired. Knowing Their Place also examines the employment of men and migrant workers, as well as the role of laughter and erotic desire in shaping domestic service. The memory of domestic service and the role of the past in shaping and mediating the present is examined through heritage and televisual sources, from Upstairs, Downstairs to The 1900 House. Drawing from advice manuals, magazines, novels, cinema, memoirs, feminist tracts, and photographs, this fascinating book points to new directions in cultural history through its engagement in innovative areas such as the history of emotions and cultural memory. Through its attention to the contemporary rise in the employment of domestic workers, Knowing Their Place sets modern Britain in a new and compelling historical context.


20th Century Britain

20th Century Britain

Author: Francesca Carneval

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-11

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13: 1317868374

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Written by leading international scholars, Twentieth Century Britain investigates key moments, themes and identities in the past century. Engaging with cutting-edge research and debate, the essays in the volume combine discussion of the major issues currently preoccupying historians of the twentieth century with clear guidance on new directions in the theories and methodologies of modern British social, cultural and economic history. Divided into three, the first section of the book addresses key concepts historians use to think about the century, notably, class, gender and national identity. Organised chronologically, the book then explores topical thematic issues, such as multicultural Britain, religion and citizenship. Representing changes in the field, some chapters represent more recent fields of historical inquiry, such as modernity and sexuality.


Women in Twentieth-Century Britain

Women in Twentieth-Century Britain

Author: Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-07-30

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 131787692X

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Women's lives have changed dramatically over the course of the twentieth century: reduced fertility and the removal of formal barriers to their participation in education, work and public life are just some examples. At the same time, women are under-represented in many areas, are paid significantly less than men, continue to experience domestic violence and to bear the larger part of the burden in the domestic division of labour. Women in 2000 may have many more choices and opportunities than they had a hundred years ago, but genuine equality between men and women remains elusive. This unique, illustrated history discusses a wide range of topics organised into four parts: the life course - the experience of girlhood, marriage and the ageing process; the nature of women's work, both paid and unpaid; consumption, culture and transgression; and citizenship and the state.


Work and Occupation in French and English Mental Hospitals, c.1918-1939

Work and Occupation in French and English Mental Hospitals, c.1918-1939

Author: Jane Freebody

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-01-01

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 3031131053

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This open access book demonstrates that, while occupation has been used to treat the mentally disordered since the early nineteenth century, approaches to its use have varied across different countries and in different time periods. Comparing how occupation was used in French and English mental institutions between 1918 and 1939, one hundred years after the heyday of moral therapy, the book is an essential read for those researching the history of mental health and medicine more generally. It provides an overview of the legislation, management structures and financial conditions that affected mental institutions in France and England, and contributed to their differing responses to the new theories of occupational therapy emerging from the USA and Germany during the interwar period.


The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain

The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain

Author: Roderick Floud

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-10-09

Total Pages: 607

ISBN-13: 1107038464

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A new edition of the leading textbook on the economic history of Britain since industrialization. Combining the expertise of more than thirty leading historians and economists, Volume 2 tracks the development of the British economy from late nineteenth-century global dominance to its early twenty-first century position as a mid-sized player in an integrated European economy. Each chapter provides a clear guide to the major controversies in the field and students are shown how to connect historical evidence with economic theory and how to apply quantitative methods. The chapters re-examine issues of Britain's relative economic growth and decline over the 'long' twentieth century, setting the British experience within an international context, and benchmark its performance against that of its European and global competitors. Suggestions for further reading are also provided in each chapter, to help students engage thoroughly with the topics being discussed.


The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain: Volume 2, Growth and Decline, 1870 to the Present

The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain: Volume 2, Growth and Decline, 1870 to the Present

Author: Roderick Floud

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-10-09

Total Pages: 607

ISBN-13: 1316061167

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A new edition of the leading textbook on the economic history of Britain since industrialization. Combining the expertise of more than thirty leading historians and economists, Volume 2 tracks the development of the British economy from late nineteenth-century global dominance to its early twenty-first century position as a mid-sized player in an integrated European economy. Each chapter provides a clear guide to the major controversies in the field and students are shown how to connect historical evidence with economic theory and how to apply quantitative methods. The chapters re-examine issues of Britain's relative economic growth and decline over the 'long' twentieth century, setting the British experience within an international context, and benchmark its performance against that of its European and global competitors. Suggestions for further reading are also provided in each chapter, to help students engage thoroughly with the topics being discussed.