Staying in power
Geoffrey Hawthorn, 7 January 1988
Mrs Thatcher’s Revolution: The Ending of the Socialist Era
by Peter Jenkins.
Cape, 411 pp., £12.95, November 1988,0 224 02516 3 Show More
by Peter Jenkins.
Cape, 411 pp., £12.95, November 1988,
De-Industrialisation and Foreign Trade
by R.E. Rowthorn and J.R. Wells.
Cambridge, 422 pp., £40, November 1988,0 521 26360 3 Show More
by R.E. Rowthorn and J.R. Wells.
Cambridge, 422 pp., £40, November 1988,
“... Decline has been most evident in manufacturing and the provision of welfare. Thirty years ago, Rowthorn and Wells explain, industry employed more people than all the services. ‘Never before, nor since, in any capitalist country at any time has industrial employment been significantly more important than it was in Britain in 1955.’ (At 48 per cent of ... ”
