Table of Contents

Introduction, Eric Hopkins; Chapter 1 The Victorian inheritance, Eric Hopkins; Chapter 2 The mid-century years, Eric Hopkins; Chapter 3 After equipoise, Eric Hopkins; Chapter 4 Industrial change and the countryside, 1830–1951, Eric Hopkins; Chapter 5 The challenge from the left, Eric Hopkins; Chapter 6 Edwardian England and the Liberal reforms, Eric Hopkins; Chapter 7 The Great War, 1914–18, Eric Hopkins; Chapter 8 The inter-war years, 1918–39, Eric Hopkins; Chapter 9 War and the coming of the Welfare State, Eric Hopkins; Chapter 102 Envoi, Eric Hopkins;

About the Author

Eric Hopkins is Senior Research fellow in Economic and Social History and Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Research in arts and Social Sciences at Birmingham University. He has published widely, and his books include The Rise and Decline of the English Working Classes, 1918-1990 (1991)

Reviews

`The books is useful in helping to appreciate the social circumstances in which businessmen operated and the role they played in helping to create them. - Geoff Timmins, Business History, 2001