Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: Labour and the economy 1900–1945
- 2 Labour and the international economy I: overall strategy
- 3 Labour and the international economy II: the balance of payments
- 4 Industrial modernisation
- 5 Nationalisation
- 6 Controls and planning
- 7 The financial system
- 8 Employment policy and the labour market
- 9 Labour and the woman worker
- 10 Towards a Keynesian policy?
- 11 The economics of the welfare state
- 12 Equality versus efficiency
- 13 Conclusions: political obstacles to economic reform
- Bibliography
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: Labour and the economy 1900–1945
- 2 Labour and the international economy I: overall strategy
- 3 Labour and the international economy II: the balance of payments
- 4 Industrial modernisation
- 5 Nationalisation
- 6 Controls and planning
- 7 The financial system
- 8 Employment policy and the labour market
- 9 Labour and the woman worker
- 10 Towards a Keynesian policy?
- 11 The economics of the welfare state
- 12 Equality versus efficiency
- 13 Conclusions: political obstacles to economic reform
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Democratic Socialism and Economic PolicyThe Attlee Years, 1945–1951, pp. ixPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1996