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Subject(s)

• Industrial productivity [Browse]

Author

• Tomlinson, Jim [Browse]

Summary note

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.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF title page (Taylor & Francis, viewed May 06, 2023).

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.

Doi

• 10.4324/9780203991121

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