Format:
1 online resource (303 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415597265
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9780203839614
Series Statement:
Routledge Library Editions Series
Content:
This volume of extremely rare pamphlets spans over thirty years of prolific output by G D H Cole. It encompasses the challenges of full employment and the role re-armament in achieving that, nationalizing industries, the principles of socialism and the welfare state
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Intro -- EARLY PAMPHLETS AND ASSESSMENT -- Copyright -- An Introduction to the Selected Works of G.D.H. Cole -- UNEMPLOYMENT AND INDUSTRIAL MAINTENANCE -- Unemployment and Industrial Maintenance -- THE PRINCIPLES OF SOCIALISM -- The Society for Socialist Inquiry and Propaganda -- The Principles of Socialism -- I What is Socialism? -- II What is Capitalism? -- III Socialist Objectives -- IV Production and Distribution -- V Socialisation -- VI Social Services -- VII The Transition to Socialism -- VIII Socialism And Internationalism -- What To Read -- The Bank of England -- I What is the Bank of England ? -- II What the Bank of England Does -- III Bank Notes -- IV The Government's Banker -- V The Banker's Bank -- VI Bank Rate -- VII The Bank's International Position -- VIII Socialisation -- What To Read -- MONETARY SYSTEMS AND THEORIES -- Foreword -- Preface -- Monetary Systems and Theories -- I -- II -- III -- HOW TO OBTAIN FULL EMPLOYMENT -- Foreword -- HOW TO OBTAIN FULL EMPLOYMENT -- Chapter One What is meant by full Employment? -- Chapter Two The Outlook for Employment after the War -- Chapte Three On What does the General Level of Employment Depend? -- Points For Discussion -- Chapter Four Public Works and Employment -- Chapter Five The Maintenance of Consumption -- Chapter Six International Aspects of Full Employment -- POINTS FOR DISCUSSION -- Appendix A Note on the Supply of Labour after The War -- Note -- WHY NATIONALISE STEEL? -- CONTENTS -- 1 The Problem Stated -- When is Socialisation " Socialistic ? -- Steel and Capitalism -- Why " Disturb " the Steel Industry ? -- 2 THE STEEL INDUSTRY ANALYSED -- Steel and Coal -- Integration and Location -- Where Does the Steel Industry Begin and End? -- Pig-iron and Ore-mining -- Scrap -- The Non-Ferrous Metals -- The Making of Ingot Steel -- Alloy and Special Steels -- Wrought Iron and Ironfounding
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British Labour Movement -- The British Labour Movement Retrospect And Prospect -- WEAKNESS THROUGH STRENGTH -- What is the UDC? -- The Economics of Re-Armament -- Appendix -- THE FABIAN SOCIETY -- CONTENTS -- 1 Fabian Functions -- Practical Proposals -- Permeation -- 2 Who The Fabians Are -- Fabian Standards -- Are the Fabians Middle Class ? -- 3 What The Fabians Are Doing -- Research -- Publications -- Fabianism And Politics -- Fabians and the Labour Party -- Policy Making -- Local Societies and Socialist Propaganda Committee -- 5 Fabian History And Fabian Future -- A Word to Fabians -- Is This Socialism? -- Foreword -- Is This Socialism? -- WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE TRADE UNIONS? -- What is Wrong with the Trade Unions? -- 1. The Wages Question -- 2. What is Right with the Trade Unions -- 3. Apathy and Centralisation -- 4. The Fear of Communism -- 5. Trade Union Structure -- 6.Trade Unionists In Politics -- 7. The Question Of Workers' Control -- 8. A Summing Up -- APPENDIX: A FEW STATISTICS
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Semis " and the Finishing Trades -- Public and Private Sectors -- The Federation and the Cartel -- The Steel Problem in Western Europe -- The State and the Federation -- 3 THE FEDERATION'S PLAN EXAMINED -- How Much Steel do we Need ? -- Home and Export Targets -- The Financial Aspect -- Obsolete Plant and the Federation Targets -- How Much can we Afford to Scrap ? -- Costs and Prices -- 4 WHY NATIONALISATION? -- The Steel Industry's Record Considered -- Steel Prices -- The Fall in Exports -- Why the Steel Industry Tends to Restrictive Monopoly -- Steel and Armaments. -- The Fears of Excess Capacity -- Steel and the Balance of Payments -- The Problems of Centralisation -- 5 THE METHOD AND THE PROBLEMS -- The Method of Acquisition -- Re-grouping and Planning -- The Shortage of Capacity -- The Steel Firms under Public Ownership -- A National Steel Board -- Labour Relations -- Consultation and Control -- The Board and the Minister -- Problems of Administration -- Research and Development -- Costs and Prices under Public Ownership -- Export Policy -- 6 THE CASE CONCLUDED -- Steel and Economic Imperialism -- The "Steel International -- Steel and the British People -- Steel Policy under Public Ownership -- The Problem of Quality and Location -- The Coming Battle -- DIAGRAMS AND TABLES -- The Main Stages of Iron and Steel Production -- Exports Depend on Steel -- Output of Steel Ingots in the United States and in Western Europe, 1937-9 and 1946-7 -- The Iron and Steel Federation's Plan for Building and Scrapping by 1953 -- Steel Production in Great Britain, 1913 and 1924-1947 -- Imports of Steel into Great Britain, 1913 and 1929-1937 -- British Steel Prices after 1929 -- British Steel Exports, 1913 and 1929-1937 -- Principal British Exports of Iron and Steel, 1938 and 1947 -- Other British Exports Largely Dependent on Steel -- BRITISH LABOUR MOVEMENT
Additional Edition:
Print version Thompson, Noel G. D. H. Cole: Early Pamphlets and Assessment (RLE Cole) Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2010 ISBN 9780415597265
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English
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