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Part 1 Industrialization 1750-1830: agriculture and rural society;population, migration and labour supply; towns, transport and internaltrade; foreign trade; money, banking and finance; manufacturing andmining; governments, war and the economy; the aggregate economy;Industrial Revolution. Part 2 The industrial economy 1830-1914: intothe railway age; population, migration and labour supply; the workshopof hte world - manufacturing and mining; the service economy;agriculture and rural society; foreign trade and empire; banking andfinance; the end of economic supremacy. Part 3 Industrialization andsociety 1750-1914: incomes and consumption; industrialization and thefamily; work and leisure; ranks and classes; employers and unions; fromlaissez-faire to collectivism - government economic and social policy.Part 4 Prosperity and problems - the economy 1914-1985: Britain and theworld economy; economic performance and government policy 1914-1939 and1939-1985; population, migration and labour supply; businessorganization and management; trade unions in the twentieth century;banking and finance; production and distribution; change and decay -economic performance in the long run. Part 5 Economy and society1914-1985: prosperity and poverty; social policy; work and leisure; amiddle-class society.