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List of Tables | xiii | |
List of Abbreviations | xv | |
Preface and Acknowledgments | xvii | |
Introduction | xix | |
Part I | The Enterprise Culture and British Cultures | |
Chapter 1 | Decline and Ideology: Thatcherite Analysis and Prescription | 1 |
Introduction | 1 | |
Ideology and Culture | 2 | |
Decline | 6 | |
Thatcherite Analysis | 9 | |
A Very Important Sub-Theme | 14 | |
Chapter 2 | Hegemony and Consensus | 23 |
Introduction | 23 | |
Characteristics of the Gentlemanly Culture | 24 | |
Way of Life | 25 | |
Ideology | 30 | |
Effects on Parties and Political Actors | 31 | |
Conservative Party | 32 | |
Labour Party | 41 | |
Consensus | 47 | |
Corporatism | 47 | |
The Civil Service | 50 | |
Secrecy | 52 | |
Chapter 3 | Manufacturing Tradition: Prostrate at the Feet of Feudalism | 61 |
Introduction | 61 | |
The Rise of the Business Classes | 62 | |
Gentlemanly Transition | 64 | |
Education and the Practical Man | 66 | |
Resistance to Competitive Capitalism | 69 | |
Conservatism | 72 | |
Style, Authority, and Organizational Culture | 74 | |
Comparison with the United States | 76 | |
Chapter 4 | The Community of Practical Men | 85 |
Introduction | 85 | |
Ideological Development | 86 | |
Culture and Community | 89 | |
Practical Men, Education, and Automation | 90 | |
Unions and Management | 95 | |
Fragmentation and Competition | 95 | |
Strikes and the Work Ethic | 97 | |
Joint Participation | 102 | |
Individualism, Community, and Laissez-Faire | 106 | |
Part II | Thatcherism and the Values of Capitalism and Modernity | |
Chapter 5 | Belief and Facticity | 115 |
Introduction | 115 | |
Problems of Evaluating Micro-Economic Agenda | 118 | |
The Contemporary Conventional Wisdom | 121 | |
Another Analysis | 130 | |
Chapter 6 | State Geese are not Great Layers: Policies Increasing Private Ownership | 133 |
Introduction | 133 | |
Privatization and Ownership Policies | 135 | |
Rationale | 135 | |
Long-Standing Opposition to Nationalization | 137 | |
Privatization of State-Owned Firms | 142 | |
Extending Ownership | 145 | |
Reducing Governmental Intrusion | 150 | |
Social Welfare | 153 | |
Chapter 7 | The New Economic Landscape: Opinion, Property, and Pocketbooks | 161 |
Introduction | 161 | |
Privatization of Industry | 162 | |
Privatization of Public Housing | 165 | |
Removing the State | 167 | |
Regulation | 167 | |
Wage and Price Control | 169 | |
Job Creation | 171 | |
Subsidization | 172 | |
Social Welfare and Redistribution | 174 | |
Increased Spending | 174 | |
Use Other Peoples' Taxes | 177 | |
Chapter 8 | Knowing the Value of Everything and the Price of Nothing: Attitudes to profit and Consumption | 189 |
Introduction | 189 | |
Devaluing Money | 191 | |
Valuing Money | 197 | |
Thatcherism, Prosperity and Consumption | 202 | |
Chapter 9 | The Love That Dares not Speak its Name: Money-Lust and the British | |
Introduction | 211 | |
Commerce and Consumption | 212 | |
Roman Empire to Middle Ages | 212 | |
Tudor Era to Restoration | 215 | |
House of Hanover to Victorian Era | 220 | |
Twentieth Century | 230 | |
Chapter 10 | Rivulets of Change and the Riptide of Tradition | 239 |
Introduction | 239 | |
Deficiencies in Schools | 241 | |
General Achievement | 241 | |
Vocational Training | 241 | |
Deficiencies in Professional Expertise | 242 | |
Science and Engineering | 242 | |
Business Management | 244 | |
Civil Service | 246 | |
Schools Reform | 247 | |
General Achievement | 247 | |
Vocational Training | 251 | |
Reforms for Professional Proficiency | 257 | |
Science and Engineering | 258 | |
Business Management | 262 | |
Civil Service | 266 | |
Chapter 11 | Thatcherism at Work | 279 |
Introduction | 279 | |
The Hardworking British | 281 | |
Survey Evidence | 281 | |
The Not So Hardworking British | 286 | |
Non-Survey Evidence | 286 | |
Survey Evidence | 290 | |
Workplace Relations and Productivity | 295 | |
A Common Purpose | 301 | |
Chapter 12 | Conclusion: The Lady was not A Gentleman | 313 |
Introduction | 313 | |
The Barbs of Social Class | 314 | |
The Thatcherite Response | 318 | |
The Gentlemen Remain | 320 | |
A Political Traditionalist and Economic Radical | 324 | |
A Cavalier with Roundhead Sympathies | 329 | |
Select Bibliography | 335 | |
Index | 347 |
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