Structural Transformation and the Demand for New Labor in Advanced Economies: Interwar Britain

Carol E. Heim

The Journal of Economic History, 1984, vol. 44, issue 2, 585-595

Abstract: In prosperous and depressed areas sectors of industry representing structural transformation in interwar Britain tended to draw upon new types of workers rather than upon workers displaced in declining export industries. Data on the age and sex composition of people in expanding and declining industries, on new entrants to the labor force, and on interindustry mobility are examined to support this claim. The process reflects a general tendency of capitalist economies to grow through incorporation of new elements.

Date: 1984
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