Twentieth-Century British Social Trends

A.B. ATKINSON Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford PETER BRIERLEY Executive Director, Christian Research, London DAVID BUTLER Emeritus Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford JACKIE CARTER Data Visualisation Officer, Manchester Information Datasets and Associated Services, University of Manchester JUDITH CHANCE Lecturer in Geography, Oxford Brookes University TARANI CHANDOLA Prize Research Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford DAVID COLEMAN Reader in Demography, University of Oxford PATRICIA DALEY Lecturer in Geography, St Catherine's College and Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford ANDREW DILNOT Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies, London CARL EMMERSON Research Economist, Institute for Fiscal Studies, London KIMBERLY FISHER Research Officer, Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex RAY FITZPATRICK Professor of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Oxford and Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford DUNCAN GALLIE Official Fellow and Professor Sociology, Nuffield College, Oxford JONATHAN GERSHUNY Director, Institute for Social and Economic Research and Professor of Sociology, University of Essex BRIAN HARRISON Professor of Modern British History, University of Oxford and Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford ANTHONY HEATH Official Fellow and Professor of Sociology, Nuffield College, Oxford ALAN HOLMANS formerly Chief Housing Economist, Department of the Environment ROGER HOOD Professor of Criminology, Director of the Centre for Criminological Research, and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford JULIA PARKER formerly Lecturer in Social Administration, University of Oxford CLIVE PAYNE Director of Computing and Research Support Unit, Social Studies Faculty Centre, University of Oxford and Fellow of Nuffield College CERI PEACH Professor of Social Geography, University of Oxford and Fellow of St Catherine's College ANDREW RODDAM Statistical Advisor for the Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases, Wellcome Trust Centre, University of Oxford ALISDAIR ROGERS College Lecturer in Geography, St Catherine's and Keble Colleges, Oxford AMANDA ROOT Research Officer, Transport Studies Unit, University of Oxford GEORGE SMITH University Research Lecturer, University of Oxford JOSEPHINE WEBB Research Officer, Nuffield College, Oxford BRUCE WOOD Dean, Faculty of Economic and Social Studies, University of Manchester

Twentieth-Century British Social Trends is a centennial record of the changing face of Britain in the twentieth century. Each chapter, written by a leading specialist, helps the reader to avoid the pitfalls of official statistics and also attempts to explain the arithmetic trends - economic, social and political - of our time.Twentieth-Century British Social Trends is a centennial record of the changing face of Britain in the twentieth century. Primarily statistical, the book sets out a broad description of how the life of the United Kingdom has developed from 1900 to 2000. But it is more than a guide or a reference book. Each chapter, written by a leading specialist, helps the reader to avoid the pitfalls of official statistics and also attempts to explain the arithmetic trends - economic, social and political - of our time.