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National Efficiency (national + efficiency)
Selected AbstractsPopular Eugenics: National Efficiency and American Mass Culture in the 1930s , Edited by Susan Currell and Christina CogdellTHE HISTORIAN, Issue 2 2008Ellen Herman No abstract is available for this article. [source] The provincial social survey in Edwardian BritainHISTORICAL RESEARCH, Issue 187 2002Mark Freeman This article examines three social surveys carried out in English provincial towns after Seebohm Rowntree's study of York and before A. L. Bowley's sample surveys of five towns. The authors emphasized specific local circumstances and suggested local voluntary and municipal remedies for the social problems they described. Their focus was on the community, and although informed by the discourses of ,national efficiency' that also lay behind Rowntree's researches, the solutions to the problems of juvenile life and casual labour that compromised national efficiency were to be found in local endeavour. Poverty was viewed in the context of its impact on the community rather than on the individual. [source] National growth versus spatial equality?REGIONAL SCIENCE POLICY AND PRACTICE, Issue 1 2008A cautionary note on the new, trade-off' thinking in regional policy discourse national efficiency; regional equity; trade-offs; regional policy Abstract Recently, there has been increasing interest in whether and to what extent the spatial agglomeration or concentration of economic activity and employment in particular regions may actually benefit national growth. The implication is that policies that seek to reduce regional economic inequality may in fact be nationally inefficient: in other words, that a policy ,trade-off' may exist between the pursuit of national growth and the reduction of regional economic disparities. This view has been particularly associated with the so-called ,new economic geography' models, and seems to be circulating in official policy circles. This paper suggests that neither the theoretical argument nor the empirical evidence for a national efficiency-regional equity trade-off are yet convincing, and that until much more research has been undertaken on both fronts policy-makers should exercise caution in appealing to this supposed trade-off notion to justify particular policy choices. [source] The provincial social survey in Edwardian BritainHISTORICAL RESEARCH, Issue 187 2002Mark Freeman This article examines three social surveys carried out in English provincial towns after Seebohm Rowntree's study of York and before A. L. Bowley's sample surveys of five towns. The authors emphasized specific local circumstances and suggested local voluntary and municipal remedies for the social problems they described. Their focus was on the community, and although informed by the discourses of ,national efficiency' that also lay behind Rowntree's researches, the solutions to the problems of juvenile life and casual labour that compromised national efficiency were to be found in local endeavour. Poverty was viewed in the context of its impact on the community rather than on the individual. [source] | ||||||||||