... Depression of the 1920s and 30s. Britain's urban areas and population experienced various changes during the fifty years following the second world war. One of the most significant economic changes emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s. After a recession in the 1970s, as Britain's economic status began to fall, the manufacturing industry began to suffer serious decline. Between 1971 and 1996 there has been a loss of over 3 million manufacturing jobs in Britain. Of this, over 192,000 job losses in this sector were in Liverpool, a -52.9% change. However, Liverpool suffered from deindustrialisation differently to other cities, resulting from Liverpool's sole reliance on its port industry (the 2nd largest UK port). This economic restructuring occurring in British urban areas encouraged growth in the service sector. Liverpool demonstrates a good example of the transition from the manufacturing to the service sector. As the city experienced the economic restructuring ...

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