The development and impact of nationalisation in Britain

The relationship between Government and economy, the best obtainable pattern of public and private sectors in market economies, is an issue of constant interest for economists and politicians of the Western world. Can nationalisation of industries, i.e. the alteration or termination of control or ownership of private property by the state, improve the economic situation of a country and its workers and consumers? Here is a survey on the more than thirty years’ development and impact of nationalisation in Great Britain

Workers’ participation in management in the EC countries

In the last few years the whole area of workers’ participation in management has been much discussed in the countries of the European Community (EC). There are, essentially, two ways of participation, i.e. at shop-floor level where works councils are widespread — though in a variety of types — and at the company board level by representative systems involving workers’ participation in management decisions of a policy nature. The latter will be the main subject of this survey