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2. P. Armstrong, A. Glyn and J. Harrison, Capitalism since World War II: The Making and Break Up of the Great Boom, London, Fontana, 1991, pp. 167–8.
3. See for example, B. Supple, ‘British economic decline since 1945’, in R. Floud and D. McCloskey (eds), The Economic History of Britain since 1700, volume 3, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp. 318–46; and
4. S. Wilks, ‘Conservative governments and the economy 1979–97’, Political Studies, vol. XLV, 1997, pp. 689–703.
5. Michael Barratt Brown, What Really Happened to the Coal Industry, Nottingham, Institute for Workers Control, 1972, p. 5.