The retreat from economic liberalism between the wars and growing government intervention in domestic and international economic policy widened the scope for business organisations to shape national policy. Although in the early 1920s business had been divided over tariffs, protectionaist...

The location patterns of multinational corporations, and factors influencing their location, have been the subject of much recent analysis. However, very little work has been undertaken concerning the determinants of the location of early inward foreign direct investment (FDI) in Britain prior...

During inter-war years (particularly the 1930s) Britain witnessed considerable long-distance internal migration from the traditional heartlands of the North, Scotland, and Wales, to new or expanding industrial communities in the South East and Midlands. This paper examines the impact of internal...

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 pre-1939 British industrial estates as new industrial districts for rapid growth industries. Closely associated with 'new' industries and highly concentrated in the South East, industrial estates rapidly expanded to accomodate plant employing around 285 000 people...

This paper examines the evolution of the non-residential urban built environment in Britain form the 1840s to the 1950s. Long-run trends towards both functional and geographical specialisation of offices, shops, and industrial property are identified and the economic, and other, forces which...