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Black Market Britain - 1939-1955 (Hardcover)
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Black Market Britain - 1939-1955 (Hardcover)
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Britain's underground economy flourished during the 1940s and early
1950s thanks to rationing and price control, producers, traders,
and professional criminals helped consumers to get a little extra
on the side, from under the counter, or off the back of a lorry.
Yet widespread evasion of regulations designed to ensure fair
shares for all did not undermine the austerity policies that
characterised these years and its vital role in securing compliance
with economic regulation. In Black Market Britain, Mark Roodhouse
argues that Britons showed self-restraint in their illegal
dealings. The means, motives, and opportunities for evasion were
not lacking. The shortages were real, regulations were not
watertight, and enforcement was haphazard. Fairness, not patriotism
and respect for the law, is the key to understanding this
self-restraint. By invoking popular notions of a fair price, a fair
profit, and a fair share, government rhetoric limited black
marketeering as would-be evaders had to justify their offences both
to themselves and others. Black Market Britain underlines the
importance of fairness to those seeking a richer understanding of
economic life in modern Britain.
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