Poll Participation Slump


reached too extensive proportions, even the Labour Bureaux, the administrative organs responsible for labour control, had to fall back on the policy of encouraging small enterprises to increase employment outside the public sector, Howe implies that the more intensive controls established in 1957 combined with the elimination of the last vestiges of capitalism in 1958 have removed the basic contradiction obstructing effective implementation of the Government's employment strategy. However, the detailed study ends in 1957 for lack of available information and the final chapter presents a set of optimistic spe culations on the course of events since 1958 ' that ignore Howe's earlier warnings to avoid the temptation of accepting policy statements and administrative measures as parts of a coherent plan. The question of what has happened to employment in China since 1958 is not answered in this book.