War and Social Change: British Society in the Second World War - Softcover

9780719023194: War and Social Change: British Society in the Second World War

Softcover

ISBN 10: 071902319X ISBN 13: 9780719023194

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 1990

The contributors to this volume look at the effects of World War II on British society, on employment policy, planning, health care, education, demography, and on groups such as women, businessmen, the Labour Party and the working class. In contrast to the view of many historians, they suggest that surprisingly little wartime change was lasting. A significant degree of unity prevailed, given the opportunity for extensive alterations in society, and much of the change which did last beyond the conflict arose out of the pre-war rather than the wartime period. Social historians and those concerned with the development of social policy, students and teachers of women's studies, economic history, sociology and business history, as well as general readers, may find this volume of interest.

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