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Governance, Industry and Labour Markets in Britain and France The Modernizing State
308 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
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This volume brings together well-known scholars from a wide range of disciplines to provide a superb analytical and historical overview of how state policy has affected established economic and labour market systems in France and Britain. The contributors to this book explore some crucial questions: * how 'dirigiste' was the French state in reality * why was state intervention more acceptable... Read more
1: Introduction; I: Modernisation and the Sphere of Industrial Politics; 2: Companies Under Public Control in France, 1900–1950; 3: The Government, Full Employment and the Politics of Industrial Efficiency in Britain, 1945–1951; 4: The ‘Real' World of the Engineering and Electrical Industries in the Parisian Basin; 5: Americanisation and its Limits; 6: Training Engineers in Lorraine, 1890–1956 1; 7: Technical Training of Youth in Britain; II: Regulating Labour Markets; 8: Arbitration in Context; 9: Collective Agreements in France in the 1930s; 10: France and Unemployment Insurance From 1920 To 1958; 11: The Evolution of the Contract of Employment, 1900–1950; 12: Industrial Relations in Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and the Docks, 1930–1960; 13: State Regulation and Industrial Organisation; 14: The State and the Labour Market
Biography
Robert Salais, Noel Whiteside
`Deakin's chapter contains an original argument but is also a useful review of the subject that any non-specialist could read comfortably.' - David Geary, Labour History Review
