Economic History of Modern Britain: Volume 2 - Free Trade and Steel 1850-1886 - John Clapham

Economic History of Modern Britain: Volume 2 - Free Trade and Steel 1850-1886 - Bog af John Clapham - Paperback

This second volume covers the period of the Great Exhibition and the development of the production of cheap mass-produced steel. It was an era of free trade and of great expansion in Britain's overseas trade. Industrial and housing conditions were slowly beginning to improve and the status of trade unions was legalised.