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Advertising, promotion, and the competitive advantage of interwar British department stores

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Did the 48‐hour week damage Britain's industrial competitiveness?

SCOTT, PETER; SPADAVECCHIA, ANNA - In: Economic History Review 64 (2011) 4, pp. 1266-1288

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The British ‘failure’ that never was? The Anglo‐American ‘productivity gap’ in large‐scale interwar retailing—evidence from the department store sector

SCOTT, PETER; WALKER, JAMES - In: Economic History Review 65 (2012) 1, pp. 277-303

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Why was urban overcrowding much more severe in Scotland than in the rest of the British Isles? Evidence from the first (1904) official household expenditure survey

GAZELEY, IAN; NEWELL, ANDREW; SCOTT, PETER - In: European Review of Economic History 15 (2011) 01, pp. 127-151

This article presents an analysis of British urban working-class housing conditions in 1904, using a rediscovered survey. We investigate overcrowding and find major regional differences. Scottish households in the survey were more overcrowded despite being less poor. Investigating the causes of...

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