Nick Tiratsoo and Jim Tomlinson describe and assess the Labour Party's development of a policy of improving industrial efficiency. They concentrate on the debates and initiatives of the wartime period and subsequent implementation of policy under Attlee. The book modifies existing historiography...

State intervention and the west's long depression -- The state and neoliberalism -- Capital dependency: the high flyers -- Labour markets in Britain and USA -- The rise in state-dependent employment: the education sector -- The rise in state-dependent employment: health and social care -- 'Buy...