Industrialisation and Society

Provides an essential introduction to the effects of industrialization on British society, from Queen Victoria's reign to the birth of the Welfare State in the 1950s. The book looks at contemporary ways in which the government and ordinary people tried to cope with these new pressures, and studies their reactions to the unforeseen consequences of the steam revolution. In particular, this indispensable book considers: the Victorian inheritance, Edwardian England and the Liberal reforms, the two world wars and the Welfare State.