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1 online resource |
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data file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-200) and index. |
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Print version record. |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| Language |
English. |
| Access |
Open Access EbpS |
| Subject |
Industrial productivity -- Government policy -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Industrial Technology.
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Industrial productivity -- Government policy.
(OCoLC)fst00971518
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Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Indexed Term |
Economic conditions History, 1939-1952 |
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Great Britain |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Tomlinson, Jim.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Industrial efficiency and state intervention. London ; New York : Routledge, 1993 0415088100 (DLC) 93019886 |
| ISBN |
9781134881260 (electronic bk.) |
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