Industrial Efficiency and State Intervention

Labour 1939-1951
1. Auflage 1993
ISBN: 978-0-415-08810-7
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tiratsoo, Dr Nick

Tiratsoo, Nick

Tomlinson, Jim

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 British industry, state intervention and Labour politics, 1900–39; Chapter 2 The production crisis, productivity, and the rise of the management question, 1941–4; Chapter 3 Debates and initiatives, 1944–5; Chapter 4 Early post-war efforts, 1945–7; Chapter 5 Human relations and productivity, 1947–51; Chapter 6 The management question again, 1947–51; Chapter 7 The ‘Americanisation’ of productivity, 1948–51; Chapter 8 Evaluation and implications; Notes; Index;

Über Autor(innen)

Nick Tiratsoo is Lecturer in Social History at the University of Warwick and Visitor in the Business History Unit at the LSE.,

Jim Tomlinson is Reader in Economic History at Brunei University and Visitor in the Business History Unit at the LSE.