Industrial Development and Social Welfare

Abstract

FEW major questions have emerged so rapidly from the theoretical to the practical stage in recent years as that of the location of industry. When the problems of the location of industry in Great Britain were first discussed by Political and Economic Planning (PEP) in 1931, the idea of guiding the location of industry was generally dismissed as impracticable, and little improvement in public opinion was discernible when P E P in 1935 first began the preparation of its report on this question, a summary of which appears elsewhere in this issue (p. 770). Since then, however, many authorities and considerations have stressed the importance and urgency of attention to the complex problems which this question presents.