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By its large programme of nationalisation, the 1945 Labour government inaugurated a new phase in the history of state enterprise, which has been ended by the privatisations of the 1980s. This book looks at this forty-year phase as a whole, considering the motives for nationalisation and summarising the legislation and policies. It discusses the objectives set for publicly-owned businesses, the resources available to them, and their achievements and short-comings, and in doing so casts doubt on some of the cherished assumptions and slogans of both the left and the right in politics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The State in Business
Book Subtitle: 1945 to the mid-1980s
Authors: William Ashworth
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21529-4
Publisher: Red Globe Press London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Macmillan Publishers Limited 1991
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 240
Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave
Topics: Economic History