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Mobilisation of resources during wartime: what areas did the comprehensive gov controls that were introduced at start of war cover

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Food supplies, transport and the labour force

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Extension of gov control: what did the gov pass in 1939 as soon as war broke out

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Energy powers act 1939

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Extension of gov control: what was gov granted authority to do until emergency powers act

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Make regulations covering any aspect of life necessary to secure defence of the realm

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Extension of gov control: which ministries were set up

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  • ministry of aircraft production
  • ministry of labour
  • ministry of production
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Extension of gov control: how did cabinet committees coordinate work of separate ministries

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Ministry of production coordinated on supply side and treasury being responsible for finance

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Extension of gov control: how gov control extended over industry directily

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Royal ordnance factories employed 300,000 workers

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Extension of gov control: why were non essential industries run down

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So their machinery and labour could be diverted to war Work

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Extension of gov control: why were new production methods devised

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Raise output and save labour

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Extension of gov control: why did gov encourage greater use of science

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Improving efficiency of economy and for developing new techniques/warfare

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Bevin and the organisation of war Work: why was Bevin the ideal choice as minister of labour

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He had a long career in TU affairs before the war

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Bevin and the organisation of war Work: why did Bevin have to do with the millions unemployed in 1940

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Get them back to work and mobilise the workforce efficiently

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Bevin and the organisation of war Work: what kind of conscription did Bevin introduce

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Industrial conscription for men and later women too

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Bevin and the organisation of war Work: who were conscripted to Work in coal mines from late 1943

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Young men/bevins boys conscripted to work in coal mines

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Bevin and the organisation of war Work: which industries were women encouraged to work in

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Munitions, engineering and shipbuilding

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Bevin and the organisation of war Work: which problem did the demands of war Work solved

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Unemployment

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Bevin and the organisation of war Work: what did the total workforce raise by

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2 million

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Bevin and the organisation of war Work: what did Bevin use to force factories to improve conditions

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Essential work orders

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Bevin and the organisation of war Work: how were factory conditions improved

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Works canteens, washrooms and medical centres

Wages improved, TU bargaining continued

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Bevin and the organisation of war Work: how did Bevin maintain workers morale

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Constantly toured factories and delivered 300 speeches, encouraged lunchtime entertainment

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Bevin and the organisation of war Work: what was broadcast on the bbc from 1941

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Workers playtime

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Bevin and the organisation of war Work: what effect did bevins contribution to the war effort have

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Did a lot to change perceptions and to convince people that labour politicians could be trusted with power

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Control of food supplies: why did clothes food and fuel have to be rationed

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Imports of food had to be reduced following loss of shipping due to German u boat attacks

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Control of food supplies: who was in charge of devising a fair rationing policy and advising public on how to make the best of it

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Ministry of Food under Lord Woolton

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Control of food supplies: how was agriculture changed to increase productivity

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Millions of acres of land ploughed up, production shifted from meat to cereals and greater use of tractors and fertilisers

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Control of food supplies: which campaign led to a huge rise in home grown veg

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Dig for Victory

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The post war economic adjustment: rationing: what was austerity

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Living standards held down so that production could go into exports to earn mucb needed dollars

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The post war economic adjustment: rationing: why did labour maintain and even intensify wartime rationing

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To limit imports and divert resources into exports

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The post war economic adjustment: rationing: why were 1948 rations below wartime average

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Financial and economic crisis of 1947

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The post war economic adjustment: rationing; which two foods were rationed between 1946-48 which hadn’t been in the war

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Bread and potatoes

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The post war economic adjustment: rationing: when did it end completely

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Not until 1954

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The post war economic adjustment: rebuilding exports: what was the export drive the twin of

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Austerity

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The post war economic adjustment: rebuilding exports: what could exports especially to America earn

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The dollars needed to buy essential imports of food and raw materials

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The post war economic adjustment: rebuilding exports: why did imports have to be reduced

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To avoid paying for goods in dollars

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The post war economic adjustment: peacetime industrial production: why did industries need to switch quickly from wartime to peacetime production

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If export drive was to be met

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The post war economic adjustment: peacetime industrial production: why were gov controls maintained

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In order to allocate materials and give priority for exports

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The post war economic adjustment: peacetime industrial production: why did labour have a regional policy directing and encouraging new factories to open in old depressed areas

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Economy needed to work at full capacity

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The post war economic adjustment: peacetime industrial production: what were wartime controls maintain on

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Prices and wages

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The post war economic adjustment: economic planning and employment: why did labour believe in state planning

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To support the export drive and maintain full employment

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The post war economic adjustment: economic planning and employment: how did labour plan to support export drive and maintain full employment in long term

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Through nationalisation

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The post war economic adjustment: economic planning and employment: how did labour plan to support export drive and maintain full employment in short term

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Gov used rationing system to control use of which materials and labour could be put with priority for exports

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The post war economic adjustment: economic planning and employment: how did the gov stimulate economy, avoid inflation and unemployment

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Taxation, interest rates and the budget

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The post war economic adjustment: economic planning and employment: how was agriculture helped

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By subsidies and guaranteed prices

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The post war economic adjustment: building a new international economic system: who did labour cooperate with to build a new world economic order

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The United States

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The post war economic adjustment: building a new international economic system: what was the new world economic order based on

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The world bank and the International Monetary Fund

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The post war economic adjustment: building a new international economic system: how did the building of a new world order begin

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With a meeting of economic experts to agree on a general agreement on tariffs and trade

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The post war economic adjustment: building a new international economic system: what did the new world economic order aim to do

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Regulate world trade in order to avoid another deep deperession like that of 1930s

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labours post war balance of payments: how much debt did Britain have

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£4198 million

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labours post war balance of payments: what was the balance of payments crisis from 1945-1946

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Britain spent £750 million more abroad that it received

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labours post war balance of payments: what was the drop in the export of manufactured goods

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60%

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labours post war balance of payments: what was the reduction in invisible exports between 1938-1946

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1938: £248 million
1946: £120 million

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labours post war balance of payments: in which areas were costs rapidly increasing

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in maintaining the military overseas

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labours post war balance of payments: what did Keynes do to cope with the crisis

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negotiated loans from the USA and Canada totalling more than $5000 million

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labours post war balance of payments: what conditions did the loans come with

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  • Britain had to end its policy of giving preference to trade with countries in the British empire
  • Britain had to accept policies of multilateral trade and join the new organisation of general agreement on tariffs and trade
  • Britain had to make the pound fully convertible to dollars within a year
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labours post war balance of payments: what was the dollar gap

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the us dollar was so strong that Britain began to suffer from it

goods had to be paid for in dollars, making loans less effective and harder to repay

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labours post war balance of payments: what was the loan running out years before it was meant to partly down to

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the bad winter of 1946-47

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labours post war balance of payments: who was the chancellor at this point

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Hugh Dalton

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labours post war balance of payments: what did Hugh Dalton have to allow holders of sterling to do

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convert these into dollars

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labours post war balance of payments: why did convertibility have to be suspended within a month

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there weren’t enough dollars in the Bank of England

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labours post war balance of payments: what effect did the crisis have

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shook confidence in Attlee’s cabinet and brought home realisation that Britain couldn’t continue spending so much on overseas commitments

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labours post war balance of payments: which controls were reintroduced in the meantime

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exchange controls

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recovery: what was a significant reason for the economy starting to recover by 1948

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American Aid

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recovery: what had the usa started to fear from 1947 about poverty in Europe

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that it would lead to spread of communism

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recovery: under which plan did the US give 13 billion dollars in economic aid to Europe

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the marshall plan

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recovery: what did exports increase by between 1946 and 1950

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80%

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recovery: how much higher was the volume of exports by 1950, than 1937

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50%

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recovery: how was the motor vehicle industry especially successful

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almost doubled pre-war peak of production

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recovery: what was success of motor vehicle industry helped by

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lack of competition fro Germany and Japan

more damaged by war than britain

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recovery: what setback was there in 1949

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recession in America reduced demand for British exports and produced another balance of payments crisis

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recovery: what did Stafford cripps do in response to 1949 balance of payments crisis

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devalued pound sterling against US dollar

£1 worth $2.8 instead of $4.03

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recovery: what was the disadvantage of devaluing pound

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it was a blow to british prestige

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recovery: advantage of devaluing pound

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made british exports to America cheaper and greatly reduced trade deficit between imports and exports

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recovery: by when was the balance of payments in surplus

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1950

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recovery: what created another balance of payments crisis

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Korean war

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recovery: Attlee gov successes in industry

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kept interest rates, inflation and wage rates low

made it easier for firms to invest, expand and export

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recovery: what improvements were seen in agriculture

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productivity improved, able to produce more home grown foods- keeping imports lower and helping balance of payments

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recovery: what proportion of new factories built 1945-51 were sited in formerly depressed areas

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50%

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recovery: which slogan was used to make staple and new industries push into full production

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‘export or die’

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recovery: how was labour able to keep down wages and costs

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through arrangements with the trade unions

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recovery: why was the number of gov controls reduced between 1949-50

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it was beginning to stifle enterprise

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nationalisation: what did the post war labour gov succeed in taking into public ownership between 1946 and 1951

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20% of economic enterprises and employing 10% of workforce

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nationalisation: which areas of industry did the state mostly own/control

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fuel and power production, transport, the steel industry and the bank of england

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nationalisation: which factors made the nationalisation of industry possible in a way that could never have been possible before

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the state had already virtually nationalised key parts of British industry between 1939-45

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nationalisation: what was there now widespread belief in

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the advantages of state planning, ownership and control. even amongst business people and middle classes

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nationalisation: what did nationalisation have to be pushed through parliament in face of strong opposition from

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the Conservatives

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impact of nationalisation: the supply of what was expanded

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electricity and gas

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impact of nationalisation: growth in

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civil aviation, cable and wireless communication

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impact of nationalisation: electrification extended to

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more and more remote parts of the country

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impact of nationalisation: coal output increased significantly between

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1946-1951

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impact of nationalisation: state control ensured what met minimum standards

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safety and working conditions

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impact of nationalisation: why did nationalisation cost a lot of money

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private owners had to be compensated which cost £2700 million

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impact of nationalisation: how did it burden taxpayers

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seriously run down, unprofitable industries which would have to be subsidised indefinitely eg coal and railways

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impact of nationalisation: why did some nationalised industries not benefit from state control

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administrative system adopted by labour didn’t directly involve workers/consumers in the decision making and running of the great industries

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impact of nationalisation: examples of industries in competition with each other

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gas and electricity

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impact of nationalisation: what was there improvement in for workers in nationalised industries

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pay and conditions

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how radical was nationalisation: how was nationalisation viewed by right wing

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dangerous policy introducing socialism into Britain

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how radical was nationalisation: for or against: most nationalised industries survived in state ownership until 1980s

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for

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how radical was nationalisation: for or against: nationalisation, along with welfare state moved Britain towards becoming a collectivist society

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for

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how radical was nationalisation: for or against: british economy ceased to become entirely capitalist and instead became a mixed economy

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for `

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how radical was nationalisation: for or against: nationalisation was also a step towards a more socialist Britain in which industry would run for social need not private gain

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for

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how radical was nationalisation: for or against: most of industries nationalised after 1945 had a long history of state involvement and control

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against

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how radical was nationalisation: for or against: form of nationalisation chosen was based on the organisation used for public corporations that had been created by the national gov in the 1930s

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against

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how radical was nationalisation: for or against: socialist demands for workers control were ignored. nationalised industries run by managers and civil servant

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against

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how radical was nationalisation: for or against: most of industries nationalised tended to be unprofitable ones

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against

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how radical was nationalisation: for or against: private owners compensated and their assets not confiscated

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against

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how radical was nationalisation: for or against: most industry remained in private hands

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against

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how radical was nationalisation: evidence for combination of limited central planning and Keynesian economic being a success

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became basis of economic policy until late 1970s

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