Professor Alan Booth
Publications
Books
The Management of Technical Change: Automation in Britain and the USA since 1950, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007.
The British Economy in the Twentieth Century, London: Palgrave, 2001.
Chapters
Technological Change and Gender in the Labour Policies of British Retail Banks, 1945-1970, in Melling J,Booth A (eds) Managing the Modern Workplace: Productivity, Politics and Workplace Culture in Postwar Britain, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008, 101-123
with JL Melling, Workplace Cultures and Business Performance: British Labour Relations and Industrial Output in Comparative Perspective, in Melling J,Booth A (eds) Managing the Modern Workplace: Productivity, Politics and Workplace Culture in Modern Britain, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008, 1-25
with JL Melling, Waiting for Thatcher? Trade Unionism, Labour Politics and Shop Floor Bargaining in Postwar Britain, in Melling J,Booth A (eds) Managing the Modern Workplace: Productivity, Politics and Workplace Culture in Postwar Britain, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008, 125-163
Agriculture since 1850, in al DMKE (eds) Historical Atlas of Kent, Boydell and Brewer; Phillimore & Co Ltd, 2004
British Retail Banks, 1955-70: a case of Americanisation?, in Kipping M,Tiratsoo N (eds) Americanisation in Twentieth Century Europe: Business, Culture, Politics, Lille: University of Lille Press, 2002, 309-323
The Economy of Kent: an overview, in Yates N (eds) Kent in the Twentieth Century, Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2001
with M Billings, Techno-nationalism, the Post Office and the creation of Britain's National Giro, in Technological Innovation in Retail Finance: International Historical Perspectives, Routledge
Conferences
with M Billings, Between a Rock and a Hard Place: British Banks and Working Class Customers, 1945-1970,
with M Billings, Techno-nationalism, the Post Office and the Creation of Britain's National Giro,
Journal articles
A Survey of Progressive Economic Thought in INterwar Britain: Strengths and Gaps, The History of Economic Thought, vol. 50:2, 2009, 74-88
Technical Change and Branch Banking at the Midland Bank, 1945-75, Accounting, Business and Financial History, vol. 14, no. 2, 2004, 277-300
New revisionists and the Keynesian era: and expanding consensus?, Economic History Review, vol. 56, 2003, 125-130
The manufacturing failure hypothesis and the performance of British industry during the long boom, Economic History Review, vol. 56, 2003, 1-33
The Broadberry-Crafts views and the evidence: a reply, Economic History Review, vol. 56, no. 2, 2003
New revisionists and the Keynesian era in British economic policy, Economic History Review, vol. 54, 2001
Britain in the 1950s: a "Keynesian" managed economy?, History of Political Economy, vol. 33, 2001, 285-315
