Governance, The State, Regulation and Industrial Relations

This book makes an important contribution to the history and theory of British post-war economics in its presentation of an innovative, historically informed, yet contemporary theory of the British state.

Ian Clark is Senior Lecturer in Management at the University of Birmingham, UK

1. Governance, Regulation and the State 2. Regulation and the Post-War Order 3. The UKs Competitive Decline during the Golden Age, 1945-1979 4. A Particularized Theory of the British State 5. The Industrial Relations System and the British State 6. The Industrial Relations System and Post-War Recovery: The Failure of the Anglo-American Council for Productivity 7. Reform of the Industrial Relations System and Economic Restructuring Since 1980 8. Economic Decline: The State, Governance and Industrial Relations