A Major crisis?: the politics of economic policy in Britain in the 1990s
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| adam_text | A Major Crisis?
The Politics of Economic Policy in Britain
in the 1990s
WERNER BONEFELD
University of Edinburgh
ALICE BROWN
University of Edinburgh
PETER BURNHAM
University of Warwick
Dartmouth
Aldershot • Brookfield USA • Singapore • Sydney
Contents
1 A MAJOR CRISIS: THE POLITICS OF
ECONOMIC POLICY IN BRITAIN IN THE 1990s 1
Introduction 1
Chapter outline 4
2 NATIONAL STATES AND THE GLOBAL
ECONOMY: THE POLITICS OF ECONOMIC
POLICY 6
Economics, politics and economic policy 8
The problem with nation-state and interdependence
approaches to contemporary political economy 14
Capital, class and the international state system 20
The development of the capitalist form of the state 23
National states and the global economy 26
Summary 30
3 THE POLITICS OF MONETARISM AND
THE CRISIS OF KEYNESIANISM 34
The crisis of Keynesianism 36
Global demand management and the crisis of Bret ton Woods 38
Eurodollars and floating exchange rates 43
Summary 48
Monetarism and debt 52
Introduction 52
Debt, boom, crash 53
Boom, debt and productive activity 57
Competitive deregulation and regulative cooperation 63
Financial crash and industrial recession 66
4 THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF
RECESSION 1990-1994 74
Major s chancellorship: 26th October 1989
to the 27th November 1990 76
The fight against inflation 76
Imposing discipline through the Exchange Rate Mechanism 79
Major s first government: 27th November 1990
to the 9th April 1992 83
A Major crisis: 10th April 1992 to the 1st January 1993 86
Storm clouds gather over the European Exchange Rate Mechanism 86
Britain counted out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism 87
The coal crisis: Major s political U-turn 90
Major s route to European Union: 1st January 1993
to the 1st November 1993 92
Industrial unrest and continued economic stagnation 92
Major s political crisis over Europe 94
Salvaging the European Exchange Rate Mechanism: from semi-Fixed
to dirty floating 95
Compounding the crisis: November 1993 - October 1994 97
Economic recovery, fiscal tightness and industrial unrest 97
The rhetoric of integration: from full-blooded union to loosely knit
states 100
Assessing Major s attempt to depoliticise economic policy:
from the ERM to the low wage economy 103
VI
5 A MAJOR AGENDA: LABOUR MARKET,
WELFARE AND THE LOCAL STATE 113
Labour market policies 115
Trade union legislation 118
Wages and benefits 122
Education and training 128
Labour market deregulation and privatisation 133
VSummary 134
Welfare policy 137
Health policy 139
Housing policy 143
Benefits and pensions 146
Family policy 149
Combating crime 151
* Summary 154
Restructuring local government 154
Local government finance 155
Local government control 158
Local government reorganisation 160
^ Summary 162
6 CONCLUSION: THE MAJOR GOVERNMENT
AND THE CRISIS OF THE POSTWAR
BRITISH STATE 166
Industrial militancy, productivity and inflation 167
The management of sterling and Britain s relationship
with Europe 178
Britain in the global economy: finance and industry 186
Financial policy and the working class 189
After Thatcher: Major problems and Labour s proposals 193
BIBLIOGRAPHY 201
INDEX 221
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