The Labour Party and the planned economy, 1931-1951
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The Labour Party and the planned economy, 1931-1951
(Royal Historical Society studies in history new series)
Royal Historical Society/Boydell Press, 2003
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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  United Kingdom
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  France
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  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-258) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
An exploration of Labour's 1931 pledge to create a planned socialist economy and the reasons for its failure to do so.
In the general election of 1931, the Labour Party campaigned on the slogan "Plan or Perish". The party's pledge to create a planned socialist economy was a novelty, and marked the rejection of the gradualist, evolutionary socialism to which Labour had adhered under the leadership of Ramsay MacDonald. Although heavily defeated in that election, Labour stuck to its commitment. The Attlee government came to power in 1945 determined to plan comprehensively. Yet, the aspiration to create a fully planned economy was not met. This book explores the origins and evolution of the promise, in order to explain why it was not fulfilled.
RICHARD TOYE lectures in history at Homerton College, Cambridge.
Table of Contents
- Planning - birth of an idea
- plan or perish - 1931 and its impact
- practical economies? 1932-1939
- the economic consequences of the war
- shall the spell be broken?
- planning for reconstruction
- international planning - external economic policy in the 1940s
- bricks without straw - unplanned socialism, 1945-1947
- planning, priorities and politics, 1947-1951.
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