Democratic Socialism and Economic Policy: The Attlee Years, 1945–1951: 3 (Cambridge Studies in Modern Economic History, Series Number 3)
Cambridge University Press, 11/13/1996
EAN 9780521550956, ISBN10: 0521550955
Hardcover, 346 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
This major study analyses the economic policies of the Attlee government, both international and domestic, in the light of Labour's issues and doctrines about the economy. Jim Tomlinson highlights the concern of the government with issues of industrial efficiency, and how this concern pervaded all areas of economic policy. He focuses on the economic aspects of the creation of the welfare state, and how efficiency concerns led to a great deal of austerity in the design of welfare provision. In addition, Tomlinson offers detailed discussion of the labour market in this period, both the attempts to 'plan' that market and the tensions in the policies created by attempts to attract more women into paid work. Students, professional historians and even politicians will greatly benefit from this broad-based reappraisal of a crucial era.
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Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
1. Introduction
Labour and the economy 1900–45
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.