State Intervention in Great Britain a Study of Economic Control and Social Response, 1914-1919 / Samuel J. Hurwitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hurwitz, Samuel J., author.

Series:

Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law ; 546

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1949]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

An investigation into the impact of the first World War on the role of government in the economy of Great Britain and its industrial society. Studies the years immediately preceding the war and its aftermath.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Table of Contents

Section I. The Liberal Scene

Chapter I. A Decade of Liberalism

Section II. The Mobilization of Industry and Labor

Chapter II. Business as Usual

Chapter III. The Need for Manpower: Early Government Measures

Chapter IV. Dilution of "Aristocracy "

Chapter V. Labor Ordering and Discipline

Chapter VI. Welfare for Efficiency

Chapter VII. Wages of War

Chapter VIII. Women

Chapter IX. The Materials of War

Chapter X. Coal

Chapter XI. The Jugular Vein: Shipping

Chapter XII. Cotton

Chapter XIII. Agriculture

Section III. The Reaction of the Nation

Chapter XIV. The Ringing of Bells

Chapter XV. Renewal of Industrial Strife

Chapter XVI. The Great Dilution Struggle

Chapter XVII. Other Labor Difficulties, 1916-1918

Chapter XVIII "Reconstruction "

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-89124-5

OCLC:

1100433447