Industrial Efficiency and State Intervention

Nick Tiratsoo is Lecturer in Social History at the University of Warwick and Visitor in the Business History Unit at the LSE., Jim Tomlinson is Reader in Economic History at Brunei University and Visitor in the Business History Unit at the LSE.

• Chapter 1 British industry, state intervention and Labour politics, 1900–39; Chapter 2 The production crisis, productivity, and the rise of the management question, 1941–4; Chapter 3 Debates and initiatives, 1944–5; Chapter 4 Early post-war efforts, 1945–7; Chapter 5 Human relations and productivity, 1947–51; Chapter 6 The management question again, 1947–51; Chapter 7 The ‘Americanisation’ of productivity, 1948–51; Chapter 8 Evaluation and implications; Notes; Index;

`This book is a significant contribution to the long running debate on the nature and existence of the `British disease' and its consequences for national economic decline.' - Political Studies