Book description
Nick Tiratsoo and Jim Tomlinson describe and assess the Labour Party's development of a policy of improving industrial efficiency. They concentrate on the debates and initiatives of the wartime period and subsequent implementation of policy under Attlee.The book modifies existing historiography in two ways - it shows that the Labour Party of 1945-51 was concerned mainly with industrial modernization, not with creating the Welfare State, and it tackles the consequently necessary re-evaluation of wider theories about Britain's economic decline.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Full Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- 1 British industry, state intervention and Labour politics 1900-39
- 2 The production crisis, productivity, and the rise of the management question, 1941-4
- 3 Debates and initiatives, 1944-5
- 4 Early post-war efforts, 1945-7
- 5 Human relations and productivity, 1947-51
- 6 The management question again, 1947-51
- 7 The ‘Americanisation’ of productivity, 1948-51
- 8 Evaluation and implications
- Notes
- Index
Product information
- Title: Industrial Efficiency and State Intervention
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2005
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781134881260
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