Governance, Industry and Labour Markets in Britain and France: The Modernizing State

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ISBN: 9780415157339 | 0415157331
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 2/20/1998

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This book takes a comparative look at state intervention in labour markets in Britain and France during the 1950s and 1960s. Contributors include Jonathan Zeitlin, one of the world's leading scholars in political economy.

List of figures and tables

vii

(1)

List of contributors

viii

(3)

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction: political economy and modernisation

(22)

NOEL WHITESIDE

ROBERT SALAIS

PART I Modernisation and the Sphere of Industrial Politics

(138)

2 Companies under public control in France, 1900-1950

(27)

MICHEL MARGAIRAZ

3 The government, full employment and the politics of industrial efficiency in Britain, 1945-1951

(20)

NICK TIRATSOO

4 The `real' world of the engineering and electrical industries in the Parisian basin: the development of state intervention, 1925-1955

(29)

ROBERT SALAIS

5 Americanisation and its limits: the reconstruction of Britain's engineering industries, 1945-1955

101

(22)

JONATHAN ZEITLIN

6 Training engineers in Lorraine, 1890-1956

123

(19)

FRANCOISE BIRCK

7 Technical training of youth in Britain

142

(19)

KEITH BURGESS

PART II Regulating Labour Markets

161

(125)

France

163

(49)

8 Arbitration in context: socio-economic conditions and the implementation of the law on conciliation and compulsory arbitration

163

(15)

CLAUDE DIDRY

9 Collective agreements in France in the 1930s: products, territories, scales: the Saint Etienne example

178

(15)

MICHELLE ZANCARINI-FOURNEL

10 France and unemployment insurance from 1920 to 1958: the myth of social security

193

(19)

PHILIPPE-JEAN HESSE

Britain

212

(74)

11 The evolution of the contract of employment, 1900-1950: the influence of the welfare state

212

(19)

SIMON DEAKIN

12 Industrial relations in iron and steel, shipbuilding and the docks, 1930-1960

231

(18)

ROY MANKELOW

FRANK WILKINSON

13 State regulation and industrial organisation: the London workshop trades, 1911-1960

249

(18)

JAMES GILLESPIE

14 The state and the labour market: reforming employment in the public sector

267

(19)

NOEL WHITESIDE

Index

286

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Governance, Industry and Labour Markets in Britain and France: The Modernizing State

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