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Author : Paul Pass
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000096404359
Author : N. F. R. Crafts,Gianni Toniolo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1996-04-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 052149964X
This compelling volume re-examines the topic of economic growth in Europe after the Second World War. The contributors approach the subject armed not only with new theoretical ideas, but also with the experience of the 1980s on which to draw. The analysis is based on both applied economics and on economic history. Thus, while the volume is greatly informed by insights from growth theory, emphasis is given to the presentation of chronological and institutional detail. The case study approach and the adoption of a longer-run perspective than is normal for economists allow new insights to be obtained. As well as including chapters that consider the experience of individual European countries, the book explores general European institutional arrangements and historical circumstances. The result is a genuinely comparative picture of post-war growth, with insights that do not emerge from standard cross-section regressions based on the post-1960 period.
Author : M.M Postan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136591754
This book includes the economic history of some of Western Europe with a focus on the United Kingdom, Germany and France from 1945 to a few years before original date of publishing in 1967.
Author : Angus Maddison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136788482
Hailed a "an outstanding contribution to our knowledge of the way in which western economies work" [Times Literary Supplement], this penetrating study of economic growth compares and analyzes tic rates of economic advance in the twelve leading countries that comprise the industrial West. Mr. Maddison examines why, after relative stagnation for several decades, the rate of economic development accelerated in continental Europe in the 1950’s, whether this represented a new economic pattern which could be maintained or was only a passing phase of recovery after World War II. He observes that the economies of North America and the United Kingdom seemed by comparison almost to stand still, and he explores the influence of economic policy on the differing growth rates, and the growth potentials and desirable lines of policy in the industrial West. He then discusses the major powers’ policy problems, whose outcome so closely affects the developing nations. Mr. Maddison presents basic statistical series, going back to 1870 in most cases, on gross national products, productivity, population, labor force, employment, working hours, investment and capital-output ratios. He draws upon this rich fund of comparative statistics with skill and insight, relating it throughout to the broad questions of economic policy which are at issue. This classic book was first published in 1964.
Author : Lydia Langer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317007777
After World War II, structures, practices and the culture of retailing in most West European countries went through a period of rapid change. The post-war economic boom, the emergence of a mass consumer society, and the adaptation of innovations which already had been implemented in the USA during the interwar period, revolutionized the world of getting and spending. But the implementation of self-service and the supermarket, the spread of the department store and the mail order business were not only elements of a transatlantic catch up process of 'Americanization' of retailing. National patterns of the retail trade and specific cultures of consumption remained crucial, and long term processes of change, starting in the 1920s or 1930s, also had an impact on the transformation of retailing in post-war Europe. This volume presents a series of case-studies looking at transformations of retailing in several European countries, offering new insights into the structural preconditions of the emerging mass consumer societies and also into the consequences consumerism had on the practices of retailing.
Author : Roger Lloyd-Jones,Merv Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134221783
The authors use a long-wave framework to examine the historical evolution of British industrial capitalism since the late-18th century, and present a challenging and distinctive economic history of modern and contemporary Britain. The book is intended for undergraduate courses on the economic history of modern Britain within history, economic and social history, economic history and economic degree schemes, and economic theory courses.
Author : C. A. Davids,Karel Davids,Greta Devos,Patrick Pasture
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9052013659
Furthering our understanding of concrete and topical developments in the growth of social partnership economies, this text discusses the impact of potential triggers, such as wars and economic crises, on the development of consultative arrangements.
Author : F. Guirao
Publisher : Springer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1998-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230373914
Based on a wide range of archival sources, this book analyses the response of the most peripheral country in Western Europe, Franco's Spain, to the challenges of increasing economic interdependence from the end of World War II to the establishment of the EEC, 1945-57. In so doing, the author sheds new light on the fundamental question of the survival of the Franco regime and stimulates further discussion on the external factors responsible for Spain's pattern of economic growth after 1945.
Author : Bart van Ark,Nicholas Crafts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521496285
A quantitative account of European growth since 1950 which combines historical and economic expertise.
Author : C. Grabas,A. Nützenadel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137329905
Bringing together renowned scholars in the field with younger researchers, this interdisciplinary study of the history of post-war industrial policy in Europe investigates transfers across borders and locates industrial policy in the context of the Cold War from a global perspective.
Author : Asa Briggs,Patricia Clavin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317868491
Now covering the whole of Europe from the French Revolution to the present day, this major new edition has been completely revised and brought up-to-date. The approach embraces the whole continent from both national and regional perspectives, and combines political survey with grass roots 'people' history. Bringing this history vividly to life, the authors use a very broad range of sources including memoirs, archives, letters, songs and newspapers. In particular, there is new treatment of the following themes: Religion and the modern Papacy Immigration in Europe and relationships between minority and majority groups UNESCO The European Bill of Rights The seeds of conflict in Bosnia and Croatia Europe's relations with the wider world, with particular attention to the Middle East and Japan.
Author : Jonathan Zeitlin,Gary Herrigel
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199269041
An analysis of Americanization in European and Japanese industry after World War II. The contributors analyze the creative role of local actors in selectively adapting US technology and management methods to suit local conditions, and in creating hybrid forms combining foreign and indigenous practices in unforeseen, yet remarkably competitive ways.
Author : Andrew Thompson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191623578
Written by specialists from various fields, this edited volume is the first systematic investigation of the impact of imperialism on twentieth-century Britain. The contributors explore different aspects of Britain's imperial experience as the empire weathered the storms of the two world wars, was subsequently dismantled, and then apparently was gone. How widely was the empire's presence felt in British culture and society? What was the place of imperial questions in British party politics? Was Britain's status as a global power enhanced or underpinned by the existence of its empire? What was the relation of Britain's empire to national identities within the United Kingdom? The chapters range widely from social attitudes to empire and the place of the colonies in the public imagination, to the implications of imperialism for demography, trade, party politics and political culture, government and foreign policy, the churches and civil society, and the armed forces. The volume also addresses the fascinating yet complex question of how, after the formal end of empire, the colonial past has continued to impinge upon our post-colonial present, as contributors reflect upon the diverse ways in which the legacies of empire are interpreted and debated in Britain today.
Author : David Ellwood
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191626791
The Shock of America is based on the proposition that whenever Europeans of the last 100 years or more contemplated those margins of their experience where change occurred, there, sooner or later, they would find America. How Europeans have come to terms over the decades with this dynamic force in their midst, and what these terms were, is the story at the heart of this text. Masses of Europeans have been enthralled by the real or imaginary prospects coming out of the USA. Important minorities were at times deeply upset by them. Sometime the roles were reversed or shaken up. But nobody could be indifferent for long. Inspiration, provocation, myth, menace, model: all these categories and many more have been deployed to try to cope with the Americans. Attitudes and stereotypes have emerged, intellectual resources have been mobilised, positions and policies developed; all trying to explain and deal with the kind of radiant modernity America built over the course of the twentieth century. David Ellwood combines political, economic, and cultural themes, suggesting that American mass culture has provided the United States with a uniquely effective link between power and influence over time. The book is structured in three parts; a separation based on the proposition that America's influence as an unavoidable force for or against innovation was visible most conspicuously after Europe's three greatest military-political conflicts of the contemporary era: the Great War, World War II, and the Cold War. It concludes with the emotional upsurge in Europe which greeted the arrival of Obama on the world scene, suggesting that in spite of all the disappointments and frictions of the years, the US still retained its privileged place as a source of inspiration for the future across the Western world.
Author : Alan Booth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317101376
A recurring theme in the history of modern Britain in the twentieth-century has been the failure of its manufacturing industry and the record of disorder and conflict in the industrial workplace. This image was reinforced by the evidence of national strikes from the 1960s until 1984. This emphasis on decline and disorder in British manufacturing has distorted our understanding of workplace relationships and cultures in the post-war years. This volume provides a fresh assessment of the diverse and complex world of the workplace and Britain's production cultures during the long boom. Essays investigate the public and private sectors, and both manufacturing and service industries. The volume begins with a comparison of labour management in the post-war automobile industry, exploring the role of the foreman in the management of shop floor labour in Britain and the USA. The following two essays are concerned with relations between management and workers in the publicly-owned corporations. The first examines negotiations over pay and effort at the Swindon locomotive works, including the cultural values which informed the behaviour of the bargainers. The second investigates managerial responses to technical change in the British gas industry. We then move into the service sector, with an essay on the management of clerical staff in banks, including a discussion of the different roles available to male and female workers, and the incorporation of automated technologies. The final essay looks at the involvement of the unions in workplace productivity and the extent to which Labour politics informed union behaviour. The essays in this volume shed new light on the reasons for Britain's economic performance and opens up earlier interpretations of national decline and adversarial workplace cultures for further debate.