This paper examines the policies of Australia and Canada towards international reconstruction after World War Two and their economic relations with the UK and the USA.

During the interwar years there was a considerable expansion in un/semi-skilled manufacturing employment. This paper examines labour recruitment patterns for the expanding sectors, together with the characteristics employers sought in the new workforce, using national data and case-studies of...

This paper examines the role of British government policy in the dramatic growth of overseas (particularly American) multinationals in Britain from the end of the Second World War to the late 1950s.

In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War economic relations between Britain and the Commonwealth were very close, and the Empire was of greater economic importance to Britain than at any previous time. International economic conditions were dominated by the dollar shortage, and...