Wage Politics in Britain
Subtitle: The Rise and Fall of Income Policies Since 1945
Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
Published: September 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9781902210919
Subjects: British & Irish history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Central government policies; Economic history; Labour economics; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Political Science; History; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; British Isles; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Great Britain; General; Economic policy; Income distribution; Wages
Description: This text provides a comprehensive and in-depth account of the history of incomes policies in post-war Britain, detailing in particular attempts at securing wage restraint pursued by each government up to 1979, and how and why incomes policies were abandoned thereafter.