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Industrial Homes, Domestic Factories: The Convergence of Public and Private Space in Interwar Britain

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Vicky Long
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Journal of British Studies , Volume 50 , Issue 2 , April 2011 , pp. 434 - 464
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170 Thomas Legge, “Factories Bill,” typescript dated 1 February 1927, TUC Archive, TUC Research Department, MS 292C/140/1.