Giant with Feet of Clay. The British Steel Industry, 1945-1981
Details:
- Author(s) Cottrell, Elizabeth
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1981
- Pages 222pp; illus
- Publisher Centre for Policy Studies
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Public ownership & control inc nationalisation, municipalisation & privatisation
- Name Business/Industry failure, decline, lack of success, etc: decline of industries
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Written by the Head of Research at the Centre for Policy Studies who hold the copyright. An analytical account of the British steel industry, 1957-76, and of the nationalised entity, British Steel Corp, 1967-81, dealing in both cases with performance, profitability, investment, production, exports, finances, capacity, etc, etc. A Tory polemic. 'This study does not seek to draw any overall conclusions. It has presented the record of the BSC, which is one of industrial progress delayed and diverted, partly by political interference but also by the sluggishness and inflexibility which is seemingly inseparable from such a monolithic giant; a progress involving vast and ever-increasing sums of public money'