Twentieth-century British social trends / edited by A.H. Halsey with Josephine Webb.

Houndmills ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan : St. Martin's Press, 2000.

xxv, 732 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

3rd ed.

Introduction : Twentieth-century Britain / A.H. Halsey -- Population and family / David Coleman -- Health / Ray Fitzpatrick and Tarani Chandola -- Immigration and ethnicity / Ceri Peach ... [et al.] -- Schools / George Smith -- Further and higher education / A.H. Halsey -- Social mobility / Anthony Heath and Clive Payne -- The labour force / Duncan Gallie -- The economic environment / Andrew Dilnot and Carl Emmerson -- Distribution of income and wealth / A.B. Atkinson -- Electors and elected / David Butler -- Towns, urban change and local government / Bruce Wood and Jackie Carter --Transport and communications / Amanda Root -- Housing / Alan Holmans -- Social services / Julia Parker and Josephine Webb -- Social security / Josephine Webb -- Volunteers and voluntarism / Brian Harrison and Josephine Webb -- Leisure / Jonathan Gershuny and Kimberly Fisher -- Religion / Peter Brierly -- Crime, sentencing and punishment / Roger Hood and Andrew Roddam.

Includes bibliographical references and index.