nationalisation resources

This page highlights resources for making sense of nationalisation.

Points of entry to the literature include The Rise and Fall of State Owned Enterprise in the Western World (Cambridge: Cambridge Uni Press ) edited by P. A. Toninelli and Private and Public Enterprise in Europe: Energy, Telecommunications and Transport, 1830-1990 (Cambridge: Cambridge Uni Press 2005) by Robert Millward

     UK

For Britain see in particular The Political Economy of Nationalisation in Britain 1920-50 (Cambridge: Cambridge Uni Press 2002) edited by Robert Millward & John Singleton, Industrial Policy in Britain 1945-1951 (Cambridge: Cambridge Uni Press 1998) by Martin Chick and the latter's Industrial Policy in Britain: Economic Planning, Nationalisation and the Labour Governments (Cambridge: Cambridge Uni Press 2002). R Kelf-Cohen's Nationalisation in Britain: The End of a Dogma (London: Macmillan 1958)

Sectoral studies include A Class against Itself: Power and the Nationalisation of the British Steel Industry (Cambridge: Cambridge Uni Press 1980) by Doug McEachern, Leslie Hannah's Electricity Before Nationalisation (London: Macmillan 1979), The nationalisation of British transport: The early history of the British Transport Commission, 1948-53 (New York: St Martins Press 1984) by Michael Bonavia



















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