Part I. Government and Industry 1920-50: 1. Industrial organisation and
economic factors in nationalisation Robert Millward; 2. Labour, the
Conservatives and nationalisation John Singleton; Part II. Case Studies of
Industry Organisation, Performance and Nationalisation: 3. The coal
industry: images and realities on the road to nationalisation David
Greasley; 4. The changing role of government in British civil air transport
1919-49 Peter Lyth; 5. The motor vehicle industry Sue Bowden; 6. The
railway companies and the nationalisation issue 1920-50 Gerald Crompton; 7.
The motives for gas nationalisation; practicality or ideology John F.
Wilson; 8. Public ownership and the British arms industry 1920-50 David
Edgerton; 9. The water industry 1900-51: a failure of public policy? John
A. Hassan; 10. Debating the nationalisation of the cotton industry, 1918-50
John Singleton; Part III. Government and the Process of Industrial Change
in the 1940s: 11. 'The thin edge of the wedge?': nationalisation and
industrial structure during the Second World War Peter Howlett; 12. The
political economy of nationalisation: the electricity industry Martin
Chick; 13. Partners and enemies: the government's decision to nationalise
steel 1944-48 Ruggiero Ranieri; Part IV. Review and Conclusions: 14. The
ownership of British industry in the post-war era: an explanation Robert
Millward and John Singleton; Index.
