Examines the legacy of economics and political aims and objectives formulated by the British government during, and immediately after, World War II. The book examines contemporary patterns of regulation by the state, and reform in the industrial relations system, as factors of historically-embedded influences on the state such as these. By doing so, the author develops a historically-informed yet contemporary theory of the British state. A significant proportion of post-war economic and political literature has highlighted the adverse effect of embedded patterns of industrial relations on...