Economic and Social History of the World War: (British series)

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Halaman 319 - Parliament forthwith, and, if an Address is presented to His Majesty by either House of Parliament within the next subsequent...
Halaman 314 - Act, shall produce the licence within a reasonable time, for the purposes of endorsement, and if he fails to do so shall be guilty of an offence under this Act.
Halaman 316 - Section, have the same effect as a certificate from the employer. (3) If any person gives employment in contravention of the provisions of this Section, he shall be guilty of an offence under this Act.
Halaman 359 - Treasury, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the President of the Board of Trade.
Halaman 316 - Order. (2) If any person acts in contravention of or fails to comply with any...
Halaman 253 - The relaxation of existing demarcation restrictions or admission of semi-skilled or female labour shall not affect adversely the rates customarily paid for the job. In cases where men who ordinarily do the work are adversely affected thereby, the necessary readjustments shall be made so that they can maintain their previous earnings.
Halaman ix - deflation ' as well, at least sufficiently to secure some fairer measure of the economic displacement than is possible in purely contemporary judgements. With this phase of the work, the editorial problems assumed a new aspect. The series of monographs had to be planned primarily with regard to the availability of contributors, rather than of source material as in the case of most histories ; for the contributors themselves controlled the sources. This in turn involved a new attitude towards those...
Halaman x - ... cotton'. The tangled threads of events have still to be woven into the pattern of history ; and for this creative and constructive work different plans and organizations may be needed. In a work which is the product of so complex and varied co-operation as this, it is impossible to indicate in any but a most general way the apportionment of responsibility of editors and authors for the contents of the different monographs. For the plan of the History as a whole and its effective execution the...
Halaman v - EDITOR'S PREFACE IN the autumn of 1914), when the scientific study of the effects of war upon modern life passed suddenly from theory to history, the Division of Economics and History of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace proposed to adjust the program of its researches to the new and altered problems which the war presented.
Halaman vi - It was obliged to concentrate its work upon the problem thus presented, and to study it as a whole ; in other words, to apply to it the tests and disciplines of history. Just as the War itself was a single event, though penetrating by seemingly unconnected ways to the remotest parts of the world, so the analysis of it must be developed according to a plan at once all embracing and yet adjustable to the practical limits of the available data. During the actual progress of the War, however, the execution...

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