Michael Kidron

Western Capitalism
Since the War

(1968/1970)

First published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1968.
Revised edition published in Pelican Books 1970.
Copyright © Michael Kidron, 1968, 1970.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for the Marxists’ Internet Archive.

Preface to the Pelican Edition

Preface to the First Edition

Introduction: The Experience

Part 1: Explanations

1. Planning
Ideology
Origins
Limitations

2. Trade and Innovation

3. An Arms Economy

Part 2: Problems

4. Prices
Inflation
Integration
Direction

5. Wages
Policies
Pressures
Attacking the Unions

6. Politics
Parliament
Declining Welfare State
Working-Class Parties
Politics in the Working Class
Consensus

7. Workers
Centralization
Decentralization
Trade-union Reform
Workplace Committees: Origins and Scope
Workplace Committees: The Drive to Control
Workplace Committees: Horizons
Leadership

Part 3: Predictions

8. The New Arms Race
The Ghetto Revolt
National Revivals and Regional Strains
The Student Movement
The Revolutionary Prospect

Alphabetic List of References

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