[PDF] Government Policy And British Agriculture 1917 1939 eBook

Author : Peter Dewey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 16,87 MB
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1317703960

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This volume comprehensively describes how British farmers coped with the problems of shortage of labour and other factors of production, as well as assessing how well agriculture performed as a supplier of food to the nation. Use of previously neglected records provides much evidence on issues such as the deployment of substitute labour and the introduction of the tractor into British farming for the first time. Challenging accepted view on the period, the author shows that shortages of labour and other factors of production had only a slight effect on farm output and the national food supply.

Author : Julian Greaves
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 40,47 MB
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1351927736

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Offering a detailed overview of state involvement in the rationalisation and reorganisation of British industry between the wars, this is the first work to address the issues in a comprehensive manner for over 50 years. Utilising a range of primary source material (including papers from the PRO, the Bank of England, the Federation of British Industry and various private archives), Julian Greaves has combined a selection of detailed case studies of selected industries with a broader overview of the national political and industrial situation. The resulting work, which manages to balance analytical depth with breadth of coverage, argues that despite numerous problems and limitations, 1930s' industrial reorganisation policy was reasonably successful in meeting the limited aims of the government.

Author : Geoffrey Jones
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 37,65 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Competition
ISBN : 9780719032769

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Examines the importance of place and its relationship to the quality of public life in the context of those northern states (e.g. Montana) whose settlement marked the end of the old frontier. Also generally questions, in terms of the Jeffersonian democratic ideal, the relationship between cities and rural areas and between politics and economics. Ten papers, revised from their presentation at an October 1989 meeting in Reading, England, explore the various economic policies of the British government since 1900, from nonintervention to nationalism to privatization and deregulation, and their effect on such industries as agriculture, oil, banking, and manufacturing. They find the policies ineffectual and inconsistent compared to those in other countries. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Alan F. Wilt
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 21,70 MB
Release : 2001-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0191543349

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Food for War is a ground-breaking study of Britain's food and agricultural preparations in the 1930s as the nation once again made ready for war. Historians writing about 1930s Britain have usually focused on the Depression, appeasement, or political, military, and industrial concerns. None have dealt adequately with another significant topic, food and agriculture, as the nation moved, albeit reluctantly, from peace to war. In this new account Alan F. Wilt makes right this omission by examining in depth the relationship between food, agriculture, and the nation's preparations for war. He reveals how food and agriculture became closely linked to rearmament as early as 1936; that the government's preparations in this sector, as contrasted with other areas of the economy, were relatively well-developed when war broke out in 1936; and that rural and farm interests well understood the effect that war would have on their way of life. He argues that food and agriculture need to be integrated into the more general historical discourse, for what happened in Britain in the 1930s not only set the stage for World War II, but also contributed to a more robust agriculture in the decades that followed.

Author : J. Martin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 32,11 MB
Release : 2000-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0230599966

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This highly readable and up-to-date history provides an informative critique of the causes and consequences of the modern agricultural revolution, since the agricultural depression of the inter-war period. This includes evaluating the impact of the Second World War, the post-war scientific and technological revolutions and the metamorphosis in the role of the state. It also examines the impact of the Common Agricultural Policy and the more recent attempts to rationalize production. The book provides the essential background for an objective appreciation of modern agricultural development.

Author : Bonnie White
Publisher : Springer
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 39,43 MB
Release : 2019-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 3030133486

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This book examines the British government’s response to the ‘superfluous women problem', and concerns about post-war unemployment more generally, by creating a migration society that was tasked with reducing the number of single women at home through overseas migration. The Society for the Oversea Settlement of British Women (SOSBW) was created in 1919 to facilitate the transportation of female migrants to the former white settler colonies. To do so, the SOSBW worked with various domestic and dominion groups to find the most suitable women for migration, while also meeting the dominions’ demands for specific types of workers, particularly women for work in domestic service. While the Society initially aimed to meet its original mandate, it gradually developed its own vision of empire settlement and refocused its efforts on aiding the migration of educated and trained women who were looking for new, modern, and professional work opportunities abroad.

Author : Philip Williamson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 24,98 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521521413

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This 1992 book is an in-depth examination of the prolonged crisis that gave rise to Britain's National government.

Author : Brian Short
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 40,22 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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Because of its sensitivity, this material only became publicly available in the Public Records Office in 1992 after a 50 year closure period.".