Engineers, Managers and Politicians
Electricity Supply Industry in Britain from 1948 to the Present
Published on 18. June 1982
XIII, 336 pages
978-1-349-03446-8 (ISBN)
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Leslie Hannah
Engineers, Managers and Politicians
Electricity Supply Industry in Britain from 1948 to the Present
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07/1982
Palgrave Macmillan
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Content
- Cover
- ENGINEERS, MANAGERS AND POLITICIANS
- CONTENTS
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Abbreviations and Glossary
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Nationalisation: The Problems of Transition (1947-9)
- 2 Citrine's Way
- 3 Meeting the Capacity Crisis
- 4 Half-Price Electricity?
- Part II Recovery and Development (1948-57)
- 5 Ministers and Mandarins
- 6 System Expansion: The Area Boards
- 7 Commercial Development: Pricing for Growth
- 8 Generation: Centralisation and Conservatism (1948-53)
- 9 Generation: The Brown Revolution (1954-7)
- 10 Labour Management under Public Ownership
- 11 Retrospect: Citrine, Self and the Management of Change
- 12 The North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board (1943-60)
- Part III The Conservative Counter-Revolution (1954-7)
- 13 Devolving Power
- 14 Coal, Oil and Nuclear Escalation
- 15 The New Men
- Part IV The Boom Years (1958-62)
- 16 The Electricity Council: Federalism and Finance
- 17 Area Boards: Independence, Overexpansion and the New Rationality
- 18 Incomes and Productivity: Planning for Growth?
- 19 Hinton: The Nuclear Retreat
- 20 The CEGB in Practice
- 21 A Scottish Alternative? (1955-64)
- Epilogue
- Statistical Appendix
- Notes and References
- Index
