History GCSE
Nationalisation and public services
What Nationalisation and public services means in History GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Nationalisation and public services
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Along with the welfare state, these expanded what government did and how far it reached into people's lives from 1945 to c.1980.
Topics that use Nationalisation and public services
Related terms
- Devolution and the territorial constitution
- Organised labour and political parties
- Parliamentary reform
- Prime Ministerial authority
- State control in wartime
- The welfare state
- Trade union power and the state
- Parliament, government and the people
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