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Britain experienced a remarkable run of sustained economic growth for almost thirty years after the Second World War — not as spectacular or as steady as in the most successful economies, but enough to achieve a doubling of living standards and more.
‘... what is more vital, we shall be calling upon more and more married women’.—Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labour (1940)
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Gilbert, R. (1989). Who Work?. In: Employment in the 1990s. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19726-2_2
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