The IRC - An Experiment in Industrial Intervention: A History of the Industrial Reorganisation Corporation

by Geoffrey Wilkinson and Douglas Hague

The Industrial Reorganisation Corporation was created by a Labour Government in 1966 and dissolved by the incoming Conservative Government in 1971. It might have faded into oblivion had it not been for the controversy generated by its highly unusual constitution which gave control of public spending to private sector industrialists and bankers. The IRC used both its influence and its cash to direct or even to thwart market forces in the 'national...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815369174
• ISBN13: 9780815369172
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"