Hugh Clegg (academic)
Hugh Armstrong Clegg (22 May 1920 – 9 December 1995) was a British academic who was a founder of the "National Board for Prices and Incomes" (1965–71) and later presided over the "Standing Commission on Pay Comparability" set up by James Callaghan in 1979.
Clegg was born in
Nuffield College in 1949.[2]
In 1965 he was appointed to the "
labour relations in Britain meant that this initiative remained a "damp squib".[6] The Board was wound down in 1971 and Clegg wrote a book on his experience entitled How to Run an Incomes Policy, and Why We Made Such a Mess of the Last One.[7]
From 1967 to 1979 Clegg was Professor of Industrial Relations at
Warwick University (the first to hold this appointment), and took part in the launch of Warwick Business School, where he founded the Industrial Relations Research Unit[8] in 1970. In 1979 James Callaghan requested Clegg to chair the "Standing Commission on Pay Comparability" with which it was hoped to tackle the public service disputes of the sort which had led to the 'Winter of Discontent' of 1978–9.[9] The Commission was disbanded by the incoming government of Margaret Thatcher,[10][11] who blamed it for over-inflating the government wage bill.[12]
Clegg wrote numerous studies, including a three volume History of British Trade Unions (published between 1964 and 1994). His book The System of Industrial Relations in Great Britain (1953, revised 1970 and 1979) was regarded as a major text on the topic. He died in Warwick in 1995 of a stroke.[13]
Footnotes
References
- Brown, William (1995). "Obituary: Professor Hugh Clegg" in The Independent, 15 December 1995, accessed 28 April 2014.
- Fishman, Nina (n.d.). "TUC History Online 1960-2000 part one, on "TUC History Online website, accessed 28 April 2014.
- Moore, Charles (2014). Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography: Volume 1. London: Penguin. ISBN 978-0-140-27956-6
- Rogers, Roy (1996). Professor "Hugh Clegg", in The Herald, 4 January 1996, accessed 28 April 2014.
- Thompson, A. F. (n.d.). "Clegg, Hugh Armstrong (1920–1995), industrial relations expert", in Oxford Dictionary of National Biographyonline, (subscription required), accessed 4 May 2014.
- Ackers, Peter (1 January 2014). "Game Changer: Hugh Clegg's Role in Drafting the 1968 Donovan Report and Redefining the British Industrial Relations Policy-Problem". Historical Studies in Industrial Relations. 35 (35): 63–88. .
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