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Thatcher and trade unions
No full textTo her supporters, weakening the trade unions was one of Margaret Thatcher's major policy successes. Whereas previous post-1945 Conservative prime ministers had sought to accommodate trade union strength by incorporating unions into elite-level decision-taking and determining wages via incomes policies, in the hope of containing the unions’ power, Thatcher was determined irrevocably to weaken the unions via a combination of statutory curbs, granting their members greater authority over supposedly more militant or left-wing union leaders, increasing the authority of employers, eschewing incomes policies and thereby depoliticising decisions which ought to be taken solely on commercial or economic grounds. Through such objectives, Thatcher's governments replaced collectivism with individualism, reinstated management's right to manage in the workplace, ensured that wages were determined by ‘the market’ or affordability rather than political factors or notions of social justice, excluded union leaders from the corridors of power and enthusiastically promoted labour market flexibility
Graham County / Safford / Thatcher / Pima small area transportation study : final report
No full textabstract: The Graham County, Safford, Thatcher, Pima Small Area Transportation Study was initiated by Graham County, in conjunction with the Arizona Department of Transportation, to develop a countywide, long-range multimodal transportation plan for this growing rural Arizona community. The project sponsors selected the PB Americas team to conduct this study under the direction of a Technical Advisory Committee, which included representatives from Graham County, City of Safford, Town of Thatcher, Town of Pima, Southeastern Arizona Governments Organization, and ADOT
Elaine Thatcher, Dave, John Durham Peters
No full textUtah Folklore Society Meeting. From left to right: Elaine Thatcher, Dave, John Durham Peter
Varieties of capitalism in an internationalized world: domestic institutional change in European telecommunications
No full textThis article examines how internationalization affects domestic decisions about the reform of market institutions. A developing literature argues that nations maintain different “varieties of capitalism” in the face of economic globalization because of diverse domestic settings. However, in an internationalized world, powerful forces for change applying across border scan affect decision making within domestic arenas. The article therefore analyzes how three factors (transnational technological and economic developments, overseas reforms, and European regulation) affected institutional reform in a selected case study of telecommunications regulation in Britain, France, Germany, and Italy between the 1960s and 2002. The author argues that when different forms of internationalization are strong and combined, they can overwhelm institutional inertia and the effects of different national settings to result in rapid change and cross-national convergence in market institutions. Hence different varieties of capitalism may endure only when international pressures are low and/or for limited periods of time
Thomas Rotch accounts payable, Hartford, 1807-1812
No full textPete Thatcher is paid $6.71 for seven days work, context unclear. 7.65" x 3
L'économie de la Grande-Bretagne et la politique de Mme Thatcher
No full textUnited Kingdom's Economy and Mrs. Thatcher's Policy, by Peter M. Oppenheimer
For over twenty-five years, the United Kingdom has been struggling with economic difficulties and with a lower growth than its partners. As a result the country is now the poorest among the North Western European countries (with the exception of Ireland). To be sure, the United Kingdom is not alone to be ailing and most of the industrialised countries suffer from the conjunction of inflation and unemployment, as well as from the slowing down of gains of productivity. But because the crisis they have to face is deeper and enduring, British leaders are often inclined to choose radical solutions. Previous labour governments have been indulging in an excess of Keynesianism; today, in order to cure the "British disease", Mrs. Thatcher relies on the virtues of monetarism, on the reduction of the state's role and on supply-side economics. But this drastic therapy which was started in May of 1979 has obviously worsened recession without yielding any tangible results in the of inflation, at least until the beginning of 1981. This failure is partly due to the contradictory aspects of the policy effectively implemented by Mrs. Thatcher. If the economic indicators (particularly inflation) now seem to show signs of improvement, the state of the British economy remains nevertheless critical while the use made of the profits drawn from oil production in the North Sea remains controversial.L'économie de la Grande-Bretagne et la politique de Mme Thatcher, par Peter M. Oppenheimer
La Grande-Bretagne connaît depuis plus de vingt-cinq ans des difficultés économiques et une croissance plus faible que celle de ses partenaires, ce qui l'a reléguée au rang de pays le plus pauvre de l'Europe du Nord-Ouest (exception faite de l'Irlande). Certes les difficultés d'aujourd'hui ne lui sont pas propres et la plupart des pays industrialisés sont frappés par la conjonction de l'inflation et du chômage, en même temps que par un ralentissement des gains de productivité. Mais l'Angleterre affronte une crise plus profonde et plus durable qui conduit souvent ses gouvernements à choisir des solutions radicales. Après les excès keynésiens des gouvernements travaillistes, Mme Thatcher compte aujourd'hui sur les vertus du monétarisme, la réduction du rôle de l'Etat et des mesures fiscales d'inspiration supplyside pour assainir l'économie britannique. Mais cette thérapeutique draconienne entamée en mai 1979 a apparemment aggravé la récession britannique sans obtenir des résultats sensibles sur le front de l'inflation, au moins avant le début de l'année 1981. Cet échec tient en partie aux aspects contradictoires de la politique effectivement mise en oeuvre par Mme Thatcher. Si les indicateurs économiques (en particulier l'inflation) semblent marquer une amélioration au début de l'année 1981, la situation de l'économie britannique reste néanmoins critique, et les profits tirés de l'économie britannique de la production pétrolière en mer du Nord restent discutables.Oppenheimer Peter M. L'économie de la Grande-Bretagne et la politique de Mme Thatcher. In: Politique étrangère, n°3 - 1981 - 46ᵉannée. pp. 593-610
Dutch disease or monetarist medicine?: The British economy under Mrs. Thatcher
No full textGreat Britain ; Economic development
"There is no alternative" why Margaret Thatcher matters
No full textGreat Britain in the 1970s appeared to be in terminal decline--ungovernable, an economic wreck, and rapidly headed for global irrelevance. Three decades later, it is the richest and most influential country in Europe, and Margaret Thatcher is the reason. The preternaturally determined Thatcher rose from nothing, seized control of Britain's Conservative party, and took a sledgehammer to the nation's postwar socialist consensus. She proved that socialism could be reversed, inspiring a global free-market revolution. Simultaneously exploiting every politically useful aspect of her femininity and defying every conventional expectation of women in power, Thatcher crushed her enemies with a calculated ruthlessness that stunned the British public and without doubt caused immense collateral damage. Ultimately, however, author Berlinski agrees with Thatcher: There was no alternative. Berlinski explains what Thatcher did, why it matters, and how she got away with it in this vivid portrait of one of the towering figures of the twentieth century.--From publisher description
Employment and wage trends in Oregon's green transportation sector
No full textby Erica Thatcher Garavatti.Title from PDF caption (viewed on March 20, 2020).Converted from HTML.This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
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