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The Counter‐Revolution of Our Time
Author(s) -
BROWN HENRY PHELPS
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
industrial relations: a journal of economy and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.61
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1468-232X
pISSN - 0019-8676
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-232x.1990.tb00738.x
Subject(s) - collectivism , individualism , public opinion , public life , political science , political economy , set (abstract data type) , public policy , sociology , development economics , economics , law , computer science , politics , programming language
The Principles of policy predominant in a number of Western countries have moved in recent years from collectivism toward acquisitive individualism. This paper examines the causes, from the standpoint of the United Kingdom. It asks how collectivism originally gained its hold, and why a reaction to it set in. Public opinion and policy was changed by rising standards of living and new patterns of working life. Hence a dissolution of the labor movement.