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  • WHY ARE THE BRITISH BAD AT MANUFACTURING?
    KAREL WILLIAMS / JOHN WILLIAMS / DENNIS THOMAS
    This book, first published in 1983, offers a new explanation for the poor performance of British manufacturing since 1950. Rather than invoke orthodox economic theory or general social factors, the book analyses four national conditions – enterprise control over the labour process; market structure and the composition of demand; the relation of manufacturing enterprise to finan...

    $980.00

  • FROM PAUPERISM TO POVERTY
    KAREL WILLIAMS
    First published in 1981, From Pauperism to Poverty consists of seven essays, three of which focus on the English poor law between 1800 and 1914 and four of which examine texts of social investigation by Mayhew, Engels, Booth and Rowntree. Rather than making a specialist contribution to the history of social thought and policy, the essays raise general questions about current wa...

    $1,100.00

  • A BEVERIDGE READER (WORKS OF WILLIAM H. BEVERIDGE)
    KAREL WILLIAMS
    The editors have chosen substantial extracts to illustrate the major themes and ideas in Beveridge’s writing over a period of more than four decades, ranging from his book Unemployment, published in 1909, to the Beveridge Report of 1942 and beyond. Sections cover his social philosophy; the crucial role he attributed to social insurance as a technique of welfare; his relation to...

    $1,320.00

  • KEYNES, BEVERIDGE AND BEYOND
    TONY CUTLER / JOHN WILLIAMS / KAREL WILLIAMS
    Presenting a coherent interpretation of the development of economic and social policy in Britain since 1945, this book analyses the political assumptions underlying post-war economic policy. It traces these assumptions through the classic texts of Keynes and Beveridge, the architects of limited, non-socialist state intervention to secure the welfare state and full employment.To...

    $1,320.00

  • FINANCIALIZATION AND STRATEGY
    JULIE FROUD / SUKHDEV JOHAL / ADAM LEAVER / KAREL WILLIAMS
    Considering the recent impact of the capital market on corporate strategy, this text analyzes, through argument and supportive case studies, how pressures from the capital bull market of the 1990s and bear market of the early 2000s, have reshaped management action and calculation in large, publicly quoted US and UK corporations. Beginning with the dissatisfaction with classical...

    $1,940.00