New Directions in Economic and Social History

Introduction; A.Digby, C.Feinstein & D.Jenkins - THE EARLY INDUSTRIAL ECONOMY - Proto-industrialisation; P.Hudson - Women's Work and the Industrial Revolution; M.Berg - The British Economy and the French Wars; P.O'Brien - TRANSPORT - Road Transport and Economic Growth in the 18th Century; J.Chartres - The Railway Age; D.Aldcroft - LABOUR - Labour in a Changing Economy, 1700-1850; J.Rule - Labour, Trade Unions and the British Economy, 1870-1939; C.Wrigley - Unemployment in Interwar Britain; B.Eichengreen - SOCIETY - New Insights into the History of the Family in Britain; M.Anderson - Mortality and Public Health, 1815-1914; S.Szreter - Poverty and Self-Help: Britain in the 19th and 20th Centuries; M.Rose - PROBLEMS OF A MATURE ECONOMY - Slowing Down and Falling Behind; Industrial Retardation in Britain after 1870; C.Feinstein - The British Coal Industry Between the Wars; B.Supple - Recovery from the Depression in Great Britain, 1932-39; D.Baines - Notes on Contributors