Britain essays higher history

• Idleness


  The need to get full employment
• Labour government's approach to idleness

  1. Take over major industries

  2. Run industries for benefit of country

  3. Use profits for government rather than private owners
• Industries nationalised


  • Coal industry in 1947
  • Transport in 1948
• Unemployment was cut to 2.5%
• Labour government nationalised industries

  Met the needs of the people
• Labour government nationalised industries

  Industries were inefficient and should have been modernised
• After WW2 there was a need to recover and rebuild, therefore there was already a huge demand for workers
• Nationalisation was costly


  It did meet the needs of the people because employees were less likely to lose their jobs and were working to benefit society