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10 Grant, “Government,” 101.
11 Wilks, Industrial Policy, 11.
12 Ibid, 16.
13 Jones and Kirby, “Competitiveness ,” 13. Conservative governments in the inter-war years and the 1980s for
political reasons tried to curb the power of the trade unions.
14 Olson, Rise and Decline, 78.
15 Jones and Kirby, “Competitiveness ,” 11.
16 Elbaum and Lazonick, “An institutional perspective,” 10.
17 Grant, “Selective financial assistance,” 374.
18 Cmnd.6315, Industrial Strategy, 1.
19 Ibid, 6-7.
20 Middlemas, Industry, 203.
21 Young, “Industrial policy,” 86.
22 Tony Benn was Secretary of State for Industry. In June 1975 he was removed and replaced by Eric Varley (see Tom Forester,
“Industrial Strategy” ; Michael Shanks, Planning and Politics, 73-79 and Scott Newton and Dilwyn Porter, Modernization
Frustrated, 168-176).
23 Middlemas, Industry, 95.
24 Forester, “Industrial Strategy,” 88.
25 Kirby, “Supply-side management,” 255.
26 Shanks, Planning and Politics, 80; Beath, “UK industrial policy,” 224.
27 NEDO, State and Progress, 1.
28 Hall, “State and economic decline,” 277; Grant, Political Economy, 63; Stout, “De-industrialisation”
190; Kirby, “Supply-side management,” 255.
29 The name was changed to the Tyre Industry SWP because its work was focused on tyres rather than general rubber goods.
30 Shanks, Planning and Politics, 81.
31 Middlemass, Industry, 95.
32 Driver, “Import substitution,” 165.
33 Imberg and Northcott, Industrial Policy, 8-9.
34 The trade unions represented on the SWP were Association of Professional, Executive and Computer Staff; Amalgamated Union
of Engineering Workers (TASS); General and Municipal Workers’ Union; Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers