An affluent society? : Britain's post-war 'Golden Age' revisited / edited by Lawrence Black, Hugh Pemberton.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-244) and index.

Introduction : the uses (and abuses) of affluence / Lawrence Black and Hugh Pemberton -- Affluence, conservatism and political competition in Britain and the United States, 1945-1964 / Brian Girvin -- Modernizing Britain's welfare state : the influence of affluence, 1957-1964 / Rodney Lowe -- The forgotten revisionist : Douglas Jay and Britain's transition to affluence, 1951-1964 / Richard Toye -- Total abstinence and a good filing-system? : Anthony Crosland and the affluent society / Catherine Ellis -- The impression of affluence : political culture in the 1950s and 1960s / Lawrence Black -- Affluence, relative decline and the Treasury / Hugh Pemberton -- Economists and economic growth in Britain, c.1955-65 / Roger Middleton -- The polyester-flannelled philanthropists : the Birmingham Consumers' Group and affluent Britain / Mathew Hilton -- Anticipating affluence : skill, judgement and the problems of aesthetic tutelage / Lesley Whitworth -- 'Selling youth in the age of affluence' : marketing to youth in Britain since 1959 / Christian Bugge -- Losing the peace : Germany, Japan, America and the shaping of British national identity in the age of affluence / Richard Weight.