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... Manufacturing Industry, UK 1907-76. 18 Proportions of Workforce Employed in Different Sectors, Great Britain 1931-76. Ratios of Non-Industrial to Industrial Employment: Various Countries 1961-75. Manufacturing Investment as a Proportion ...
... Manufacturing Industry, UK 1907-76. 18 Proportions of Workforce Employed in Different Sectors, Great Britain 1931-76. Ratios of Non-Industrial to Industrial Employment: Various Countries 1961-75. Manufacturing Investment as a Proportion ...
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... manufacturer and customer, a major disadvantage in promoting the sale of ... industrial overcommitment 'and indirectly reduced or at least gave little ... industry before 1914 with the result that labour was both inefficiently ...
... manufacturer and customer, a major disadvantage in promoting the sale of ... industrial overcommitment 'and indirectly reduced or at least gave little ... industry before 1914 with the result that labour was both inefficiently ...
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... industry.39 This kind of generalised reasoning is, however, open to serious ... manufacture of agricultural machinery and medium-range machine tools, for ... industries, ranging from the armaments sector of heavy industry and shipbuilding ...
... industry.39 This kind of generalised reasoning is, however, open to serious ... manufacture of agricultural machinery and medium-range machine tools, for ... industries, ranging from the armaments sector of heavy industry and shipbuilding ...
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M.W. Kirby. making or chocolate industry' but, as the same source has also ... industry had been the most important growth sector in the early stages of ... manufacturing processes which were comparatively labour intensive48 This is ...
M.W. Kirby. making or chocolate industry' but, as the same source has also ... industry had been the most important growth sector in the early stages of ... manufacturing processes which were comparatively labour intensive48 This is ...
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Contents
1 | |
Growth and Stagnation | 24 |
Recovery on the Dole | 57 |
the Bankrupt State | 82 |
the Political Economy of Failure | 105 |
Statistical Tables | 137 |
Notes | 160 |
Bibliography | 185 |
Index | 201 |
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