UID:
edoccha_9959148204702883
Format:
1 online resource (182 p.)
Edition:
1st edition
ISBN:
1-280-22446-0
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9786610224463
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0-203-99112-5
Content:
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.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-134-88126-6
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-08810-0
Language:
English
