Example sentences of "[prep] the post-second world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slavery and imperial domination have been crucial social forces in the emergence of a modern world order , characterized by the striking inequalities which provide the essential backdrop to an understanding of the post-Second World War migrations of black communities to Britain , and which continue to generate migratory pressures on peoples from the Third World . |
| 2 | This profound asymmetry in the structure and evolution of the world economic system provides the essential background to the more recent migrations of black communities to Britain in the post-Second World War period , for one of its main effects has been the creation of pools of under- and unemployed workers in circumstances of poverty and restricted opportunity in the Third World , who find themselves having to undergo the painful dislocation entailed by migration and travel thousands of miles in search of work . |
| 3 | These ‘ pull ’ factors operated with particular force in the post-Second World War period as many of the European countries began to reconstruct and expand their economies at a rapid rate and found themselves suffering acute labour shortages which could only be relieved by the employment of foreign workers . |
| 4 | In the Soviet Union there was a pattern of swings between single and collective leadership in the post-Second World War period . |
| 5 | A report by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) shows that non-oil commodity prices in dollar terms reached their lowest level in the post-Second World War period during the first quarter of 1987 . |
| 6 | However , although ‘ multiculturalism , as an educational movement dates from the 1970s and is primarily a response to the post-Second World War migration of black communities to Britain , it is important to recognize that multiculturalism is a perennial social issue , for all but the simplest of societies are characterized by cultural diversity . |