ABSTRACT
Maps 7.1-7.4 and 7.14-7.17 are based on the Census of 1851; 7.5-7.9 and 7.19-7.22 on the Census of 1911, and 7.10-7.13 and 7.23-7.25 on the Census of 1971. The data for Map 7.18 is to be found in Board of Trade Labour Dept., Report by Miss Collet on the Statistics of Employment of Women and Girls , C. 7564, B P P 1894, LXXXI, Pt 2. The material for Maps 7.26-
7.29 can be found in the Ministry of Labour’s Local Unemployment Index for June 1930, 1932, and 1937. Map 7.30 is based on figures contained in the Department of Employment’s British Labour Statistics, Historical Abstract 18861968 (London, 1971), p. 329, and Map. 7.31 is reproduced by permission of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office from Regional Trends, no. 20 (London, 1985). Maps on ‘Special’ or Development Areas (7.32-7.35) are based on material in S.R.Dennison, The Locat ion of Industry and the Depressed Areas (London, 1939), G.McCrone, Regional Policy in Bri tain (London, 1969), D.Maclennan and J.B.Parr (eds), Regional Policy: Past Experience and New Directions (London, 1979), and Regional Trends, no. 22, (London, 1987). Particular thanks are due to Matthew and Branca Pope for their work in converting census figures into percentages.
