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Industrial efficiency and state intervention : Labour, 1939-51 / Nick Tiratsoo and Jim Tomlinson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tiratsoo, Nick, 1952-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Industrial productivity--Government policy--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Industrial productivity.
- Industrial efficiency--Government policy--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Industrial efficiency.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (182 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st edition
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786610224463
- 9781280224461
- 1280224460
- 9780203991121
- 0203991125
- OCLC:
- 475966663
- Publisher Number:
- https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203991121
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access.
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