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A return to incomes policy? *
Author(s) -
Towers Brian
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
industrial relations journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.525
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1468-2338
pISSN - 0019-8692
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2338.1981.tb00342.x
Subject(s) - comparability , economics , private sector , government (linguistics) , cash , public sector , human settlement , incomes policy , control (management) , public economics , public policy , collective bargaining , business , economic policy , labour economics , finance , macroeconomics , economic growth , economy , price level , linguistics , philosophy , mathematics , archaeology , combinatorics , management , history
The Government's continuing difficulties in controlling the money supply and determination to use cash limits to control the level of public sector pay settlements have renewed cause for a return to a form of incomes policy covering both the public and private sectors. In this article Brian Towers examines the nature of incomes policy and the importance of comparability and collective bargaining structure in its implementation and discusses the form which a viable future policy should take.