Attempts to 'Modernize': Nationalization and the nationalized industries in postwar Britain

Reappraising State-Owned Enterprise: A Comparison of the UK and Italy

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 50-67

  O'Hara, Glen ^a  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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