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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The 1945 Labour Government: the mixed economy and wage restraint
- 2 Incomes policy and Labour in opposition
- 3 The voluntary incomes policy agreement
- 4 The devaluation of voluntarism
- 5 The politics of wage freeze
- 6 The statutory incomes policy – Labour Government versus labour movement
- 7 ‘In place of strife’
- 8 Industrial militancy and political stagnation
- Conclusion
- Appendixes
- 1 Public opinion and incomes policy, 1965–1968
- 2 1968 survey of trade union opinion on incomes policy
- 3 Economic indicators
- 4 Interviews
- Notes
- Index
1 - Public opinion and incomes policy, 1965–1968
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 October 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The 1945 Labour Government: the mixed economy and wage restraint
- 2 Incomes policy and Labour in opposition
- 3 The voluntary incomes policy agreement
- 4 The devaluation of voluntarism
- 5 The politics of wage freeze
- 6 The statutory incomes policy – Labour Government versus labour movement
- 7 ‘In place of strife’
- 8 Industrial militancy and political stagnation
- Conclusion
- Appendixes
- 1 Public opinion and incomes policy, 1965–1968
- 2 1968 survey of trade union opinion on incomes policy
- 3 Economic indicators
- 4 Interviews
- Notes
- Index
Summary
Various national public opinion surveys focussed on the prices and incomes policy under the Labour Government. For comparative purposes over time, the question asked most consistently was by Social Surveys (Gallup Polls) Ltd. between 1965 and 1968: ‘Do you think the Government's Prices and Incomes Policy is a good thing or a bad thing?’ (Up to January 1966 the question was worded slightly differently: ‘Do you think that the Prices and Incomes Policy agreement as being discussed by Mr Brown is a good thing or a bad thing?’). The following table, computed from the Gallup Political Index and data supplied to the author by Gallup, gives some indication of the changing public attitude to the policy during these years, particularly in the crucial months of July to September 1966 which proved to be the turning point in the public's response to the policy.
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- Social Democracy and Industrial MilitiancyThe Labour Party, the Trade Unions and Incomes Policy, 1945–1947, pp. 260 - 261Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1976