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

by Salais,Robert

• ISBN13: 9780415157339
• ISBN10: 0415157331
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-02-20
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables	vii	(1)
List of contributors	viii	(3)
Acknowledgements	xi
1 Introduction: political economy and modernisation	1	(22)
NOEL WHITESIDE
ROBERT SALAIS
PART I Modernisation and the Sphere of Industrial Politics	23	(138)
2 Companies under public control in France, 1900-1950	25	(27)
MICHEL MARGAIRAZ
3 The government, full employment and the politics of industrial efficiency in Britain, 1945-1951	52	(20)
NICK TIRATSOO
4 The `real' world of the engineering and electrical industries in the Parisian basin: the development of state intervention, 1925-1955	72	(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