Social Democracy and Industrial Militiancy Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The 1945 Labour Government: the mixed economy and wage restraint
- 2 Incomes policy and Labour in opposition
- 3 The voluntary incomes policy agreement
- 4 The devaluation of voluntarism
- 5 The politics of wage freeze
- 6 The statutory incomes policy – Labour Government versus labour movement
- 7 ‘In place of strife’
- 8 Industrial militancy and political stagnation
- Conclusion
- Appendixes
- Notes
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The 1945 Labour Government: the mixed economy and wage restraint
- 2 Incomes policy and Labour in opposition
- 3 The voluntary incomes policy agreement
- 4 The devaluation of voluntarism
- 5 The politics of wage freeze
- 6 The statutory incomes policy – Labour Government versus labour movement
- 7 ‘In place of strife’
- 8 Industrial militancy and political stagnation
- Conclusion
- Appendixes
- Notes
- Index
Summary
Recently someone asked, for whom does one write? That is a profound question. One should always dedicate a book. Not that one alters one's thoughts with a change of interlocutor, but because every word, whether we know it or not, is always a word with someone, which presupposes a certain degree of esteem or friendship, the resolution of a certain number of misunderstandings, the transcendence of a certain latent content, and finally, the appearance of part of the truth in the encounters we live.
(Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Humanism and Terror)This book is a product of such encounters with many people in various situations: with my late parents and the social democratic environment of my youth in Winnipeg; with numerous individuals associated with the labour movement in Britain during my years in England from 1967 to 1972; with friends and colleagues on both sides of the Atlantic with whom the ideas contained here were so often discussed. Above all, two people have been most important: Ralph Miliband, my teacher and friend, from whose wisdom, aid and criticism I have benefited greatly; and Melanie Panitch, who has shared these encounters with me, and whose understanding, encouragement and advice have been invaluable. It gives me real pleasure to acknowledge here the debt I owe to both of them.
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- Social Democracy and Industrial MilitiancyThe Labour Party, the Trade Unions and Incomes Policy, 1945–1947, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1976
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