Undermining Capitalism: State Ownership and the Dialectic of Control in the British Coal Industry

KRIEGER Joel

ISBN 10: 0691076626 / ISBN 13: 9780691076621

Published by Princeton University Press, 1983

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pp.xii, 321 pages, hardback, a near-fine copy in a like dust-jacket [0691076626].

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Undermining Capitalism: State Ownership and the Dialectic of Control in the British Coal Industry
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691076626
• ISBN 13: 9780691076621
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

Beginning with the nationalized British coal industry and then raising more general issues concerning the contemporary state, Joel Krieger studies the day wage structure for face workers (National Power Loading Agreement) introduced by the National Coal Board in 1966, its consequences, and the ways in which earlier work conventions, wage structures, and social relations affected it.

Originally published in 1984.

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About the Author

Joel Krieger is the Norma Wilentz Hess Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College. He is author of Reagan, Thatcher, and the Politics of Decline (Oxford University Press, 1986), British Politics in the Global Age (Oxford University Press, 1999). He is the editor-in-chief of The Oxford Companion to Comparative Politics (Oxford University Press, 2013).