文档介绍：SOCIALISING PUBLIC OWNERSHIP
SOCIALISING PUBLIC
OWNERSHIP
Martyn Sloman
M
© Martyn Sloman 1978
Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1978
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Sloman, Martyn
Socialising public ownership
1. Government ownership - Great Britain
I. Title
HD4143
ISBN 978-1-349-03514-4 ISBN 978-1-349-03512-0 (eBook)
DOI -1-349-03512-0
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For my friends in the Labour Party,
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Contents
PREFACE ix
ABBREVIATIONS xi
1 THE LABOUR PARTY AND CLAUSE IV 1
Chronology 18
.2 PUBLIC OWNERSHIP IN PRACTICE .110
Chronology 41
3 THE ROLE OF THE WORKERS 43
4 ACTING AND REACTING: THREE CASE STUDIES 64
The Collapse of Rolls-Royce 64
Change in the Steel Industry 70
The Motor-cycle Co-operative 77
5 DILEMMAS OF PUBLIC OWNERSHIP 85
Who Should Industry Serve? 85
What Sort of Objectives? 89
The Role of the Consumer
Efficiency and Redundancy 96
The Role of Professional Management 99
6 SOME BLIND ALLEYS EXPLORED 103
The Government Should Let Industry Get On With It 103
The Market Doesn't Matter- We Need Socialist Planning 110
Workers' Control is the Answer 115
7 MON OWNERSHIP MEET THE uo
CHALLENGE?
8 TOWARDS SOCIALISED INDUSTRY 136
BIBLIOGRAPHY 151
INDEX 156
Preface
The second half of the part of the Labour Party's Constitution
which is popularly known as Clause IV refers to the need for 'the
best obtainable system of popular administration and control of
each industry or service'. The 1970s