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The Experience of Labour in Eighteenth-Century Industry

1st Edition

By John Rule
January 19, 2026

Originally published in 1981, this book, unlike conventional textbooks concerning the Industrial Revolution, stresses the continuity of the labour experience in the 18th Century. Examining the organisation and structure of mining and manufacture in England, the author identifies the main kinds of ...

The Fixing of Wages in Government Employment

1st Edition

By E. Colston Shepherd
January 19, 2026

Originally published in 1923, this thorough and critical volume collected and analysed material bearing on the UK Government practice during the early part of the 20th Century in settling wages in 4 key government departments. A substantial introduction indicates the constitutional aspect of the ...

The Impact of Recession: On Industry, Employment and the Regions, 1976–1981

1st Edition

By Alan R. Townsend
January 19, 2026

Rich industrialised countries entered the 1980s with unemployment higher than before the Second World War. Britain experienced the impact of recession more immediately and sharply; over one million factory jobs were lost. Originally published in 1983 and now reissued with a new Preface by the ...

Unemployment

1st Edition

Edited By Bernard Crick
January 19, 2026

This book was originally published in 1981 at a time when mass unemployment had returned to the United Kingdom. Now reissued with a new Preface by the author's literary executor, the essays in this volume discuss in detail the damage that was being done to the community and the economy at national ...

Unemployment, Crime, and Offenders

1st Edition

By Iain Crow, Paul Richardson, Carol Riddington, Frances Simon
January 19, 2026

The preoccupation with the unemployment-crime link has meant that a number of other concerns about the way that unemployment affects the criminal justice system, and ways of dealing with offenders, have been largely ignored. This book, originally published in 1989, brings together research from a ...

Whitehall and the Labour Problem in late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain: A Study in Official Statistics and Social Control

1st Edition

By Roger Davidson
January 19, 2026

Most interpretations of late-Victorian and Edwardian social and economic trends have relied heavily upon the industrial labour statistics published by Whitehall. This book, originally published in 1985 incorporates a critical examination of the human resources, motivation and statistical techniques...

World Labour Rights and Their Protection

1st Edition

By James Avery Joyce
January 19, 2026

Originally published in 1980, this book examines a range of Government attitudes to their workers arguing that these provide the touchstone for all civil justice. The book looks at the United Nations system of Human Rights protection and the procedures of the International Labour Office (ILO) in ...

Youth Unemployment in the 1980s: Its Psychological Effects

1st Edition

By Michael H. Banks, Philip Ullah
January 19, 2026

Youth unemployment is one of the most critical problems generated by any recession. Widespread changes in the structure of the youth labour market, together with the increasing affluence amongst the employed, meant that the experience of unemployment for young people in the 1970s and 1980s was ...

Youth, Unemployment and Training: A Collection of National Perspectives

1st Edition

Edited By Rob Fiddy
January 19, 2026

Originally published in 1985, this book brings together diverse perspectives of global policy and experience concerning threatened or high levels of youth unemployment and the measures taken in the countries concerned. From the examples quoted it is obvious that there was little consensus ...