Industrial efficiency and state intervention : Labour, 1939-51 / / Nick Tiratsoo and Jim Tomlinson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910765820303321
• Autore: Tiratsoo Nick <1952->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1993
• ISBN: 1-280-22446-0; 9786610224463; 0-203-99112-5
• Edizione: [1st edition]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (182 p.)
• Classificazione: BUS069000POL000000
• Altri autori (Persone): TomlinsonJim
• Disciplina: 338.0941; 338/.06; 941.082
• Soggetti: Industrial productivity - Government policy - Great Britain - History - 20th century; Industrial efficiency - Government policy - Great Britain - History - 20th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.