Triumph of the South: A Regional Economic History of Early Twentieth Century BritainThis study of interwar regional development and policy aims not only to focus on the problems of 'outer-Britain', but to explore the cumulative processes of development which allowed the South East and West Midlands to emerge as the main centres for dynamic, modern, industry. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
British regional development before the twentieth century | 7 |
18701914 | 23 |
The First World War | 45 |
Depression and decline in outerBritain | 67 |
New industrial development in outerBritain | 95 |
The beautiful South | 121 |
New manufacturing industry in Greater London | 135 |
Longdistance migrants in the new industrial workforce | 203 |
Rural and coastal Britain | 229 |
The genesis of British regional policy | 253 |
Conclusions | 281 |
Interwar data on new manufacturing plants | 287 |
The regional distribution of Britains employed population by sector in 1911 and 1931 | 291 |
Bibliography | 297 |
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