The Political Economy of Nationalisation in Britain, 1920–1950

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Edited by Robert Millward, University of Manchester, John Singleton, Victoria University of Wellington

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: May 2010
Print publication year:: 1995
Online ISBN:: 9780511721076
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511721076

Subjects:: Twentieth Century British History, History, Economic History

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In this 1995 study of the causes of nationalisation, experts in British industrial history analyse the public ownership debates, and explain how many well-informed and moderate groups came to believe that the public ownership of certain major industries would be economically beneficial. During Attlee's Labour governments of 1945–51 a number of important industries, including coal, electricity, the railways and gas were taken into public ownership, and legislation was passed for the nationalisation of the steel industry. It was then argued that nationalisation would lead to an improvement in the efficiency of these key sectors, on which the rest of British industry depended for inputs. This study examines the historical issues and uses detailed case studies of industries to explore the public ownership debate.

‘… an admirable collection of papers on the political and economic background to nationalisation.’

Source: The Financial Times

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

List of tables
pp ix-x

List of contributors
pp xi-xii

Preface
pp xiii-xiv

I - Government and industry 1920–50
pp 1-2

1 - Industrial organisation and economic factors in nationalisation
pp 3-12

2 - Labour, the Conservatives and nationalisation
pp 13-34

II - Case studies of industry organisation, performance and nationalisation
pp 35-36

3 - The coal industry: images and realities on the road to nationalisation
pp 37-64

4 - The changing role of government in British civil air transport 1919–49
pp 65-87

5 - The motor vehicle industry
pp 88-115

6 - The railway companies and the nationalisation issue 1920–50
pp 116-143

7 - The motives for gas nationalisation: practicality or ideology?
pp 144-163

8 - Public ownership and the British arms industry 1920–50
pp 164-188

9 - The water industry 1900–51: a failure of public policy?
pp 189-211

10 - Debating the nationalisation of the cotton industry, 1918–50
pp 212-234

III - Government and the process of industrial change in the 1940s
pp 235-236

11 - ‘The Thin Edge of the Wedge?’: nationalisation and industrial structure during the Second World War
pp 237-256

12 - The political economy of nationalisation: the electricity industry
pp 257-274

13 - Partners and enemies: the government's decision to nationalise steel 1944–8
pp 275-306

IV - Review and Conclusions
pp 307-308

14 - The ownership of British industry in the post-war era: an explanation
pp 309-320

Index
pp 321-325

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