Industrial Efficiency and State Intervention: Labour 1939-1951Nick 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. |
Contents
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2 The production crisis productivity and the rise of the management question 19414 | 21 |
3 Debates and initiatives 19445 | 44 |
4 Early postwar efforts 19457 | 64 |
5 Human relations and productivity 194751 | 90 |
6 The management question again 194751 | 111 |
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AACP accepted Advisory American Americanisation approach argued associations Attlee Austen Albu Board of Trade body Britain British industry British management Business Carew central Conservative cotton Cripps Cripps's Dalton Development Councils discussion Economic Policy Economist emphasised employers encouraged engineering enquiry example existing factory favour firms G.D.H. Cole Government's human relations Ibid idea important industrial democracy industrial efficiency industrial modernisation industrial policy industrial relations Industry Illustrated initiatives intervention involved joint consultation Joint Production Committees JPCs Labour Party London Lord President's Committee machinery major managerial manufacturers Marshall Aid Meeting Ministers Ministry of Labour Ministry of Production Morrison motion study MRC MSS nationalised industries NJAC noted organisation Oxford period political position post-war private enterprise problem productivity issue programme progress proposals question recognised Report Research restrictive practices role scientific management Socialised Industries Socialism standardisation trade unions Urwick wage Weir Whilst workers