Notes on the Contributors - Preface; P. Catterall - Introduction; H. Jones - A Bloodless Counter-Revolution: the Conservative Party and the Defence of Inequality 1945-51; H. Jones - Consensus here Consensus there. but not Consensus everywhere: the Labour Party Equality and Social Policy in the 1950s; N. Ellison - 'Not Reformed Capitalism but. Democratic Socialism': the Ideology of the Labour Leadership 1945-51; M. Francis - Conservative Elites Strategy - and 'Consensus'?; M. D. Kandiah - Consensus and Consumption: Rationing Austerity and Controls after the War; I. Zweiniger-Bargielowska - Butskellism the Postwar Consensus and the Managed Economy; N. Rollings - The Politics of the 'Social' and the 'Industrial' Wage 1945-60; N. Whiteside - Industrial Organisation and Ownership and a New Definition of the Postwar 'Consensus'; H. Mercer - Decolonisation and Postwar Consensus; N. Owen - Index. Language: English