Road to full employment / edited by Sean Glynn and Alan Booth

Modern British attitudes towards employment and related policy questions were formed during the inter-war period and the 1940s. This is the first single volume study of the inter-war'unemployment problem and the development of economic and social policy in relation to that problem. Contemporary policies and levels of unemployment can only be compared with the inter-war period and in recent years economists and other commentators have increasingly turned their attention to the 1930s.

This book is written by a group of expert historians and policy analysts who have been in the forefront of recent research. In particular, new insights into economic policy which have come from the release of cabinet and departmental papers at The Public Record Office are revealed. Recent economic theory is also taken into account and the findings question established views on many grounds. New economic

lessons from the 1930s are suggested and some astonishing similarities to the 1980s are demonstrated. This work will be essential reading for students of modern British history and economic and social history as well as economic policy and government and politics.