ABSTRACT

This book examines the legacy of economic and political aims and objectives formulated by the British government during, and immediately after the second world war. It examines contemporary patterns of regulation by the state, and reform in the industrial relations system as factors of these historically embedded influences. This book makes an important contribution to the history and theory of British post-war economics.

chapter 2|30 pages

Regulation and the post-war order

chapter 4|22 pages

A particularized theory of the UK state

chapter 6|24 pages

The industrial relations system and post-war recovery

The failure of the Anglo-American Council for Productivity?

chapter 8|10 pages

Economic decline

The state, regulation and industrial relations?