Education and Economic Decline in Britain, 1870 to the 1990s. By Michael Sanderson. (New Studies in Economic and Social History Series.) New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. viii, 124. $39.95, cloth; $11.95, paper.

Abstract

Michael Sanderson, author of several influential books on British education and industry, is the general editor of the series in which this volume appears. It admirably fulfills the aim of the series—to survey the current state of scholarship for students and their teachers—by reviewing an extensive literature on British schooling and its relation to the economy in seven tightly organized, substantive chapters. If a succinct overview of this work is what you need, this is the book to get.