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"A much-needed reassessment of the history of income policies in Britain. Peter Dorey's well-recorded study provides a lucid account and analysis of income policies of 1945-79 as well of the post-1979 rejection of such policies. It is an important book for those concerned with post-1945 British history, both political and economic, as well as for those interested in the history of industrial relations. Chris Wrigley, Professor of Modern British History, University of Nottingham Although incomes policy, in one form or another, dominated British public policy for thirty-five years after the Second World War, it has surprisingly not received a comprehensive, political treatment covering the whole period. This book fills that gap. It offers important lessons for today's student Professor Brian Towers, Industrial Relations Journal This readable and well-researched volume deals with the fundamental conflict in post-war British labour history between the desire of trade unions to remain collective bargainers free from state control and the needs of governments to contain wage--push inflation through incomes policies. It is a valuable contribution to an all-important debate that did so much to shape the character of Britain's post-war political economy. Robert Taylor, Financial Times
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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.
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