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Austerity in Britain is the first book to explore the entire episode of rationing, austerity, and fair shares from 1939 until 1955. These policies were central to the British war effort and to post-war reconstruction. The book analyzes the connections between government policy, consumption, gender, and party politics during and after the Second World War. It qualifies the myth of common sacrifice on the home front and highlights the limitations of the fairshares policy which failed to achieve genuine equality between classes or between men and women. The continuation of rationing and austerity policies after 1945 was central to party politics. Disaffection, particularly among women, undermined Labour's popularity while the Conservatives' critique of austerity was instrumental to the party's victories at the general elections of 1951 and 1955.
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About the Author
Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska is a Associate Professor of Modern British History at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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"[T]he austerity regime has not attracted the academic study it deserves, and this scholarly and thoroughly researched book by Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska will, therefore, be widely welcomed. She challenges received opinion in several ways and has much of interest to say for students of war, British administration, women, and party-political history...Readers of Austerity in Britain will particularly enjoy the detailed discussion of the black market."--Martin Pugh, Times Literature Supplement
"At last we have a full history. Austerity in Britain is required reading for anyone who thinks that utility furniture and pencil-line stockings say it all."--Richard Overy, The Sunday Telegraph
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0199251029
- ISBN 13 9780199251025
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages300
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