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A Neoliberal Revolution?: Thatcherism and the Reform of British Pensions

This book examines the Thatcher governments attempt to revolutionise Britains pensions system in the 1980s and create a nation of risk-taking savers with an individual stake in capitalism. Drawing upon recently-released archival records, it shows how the ideas motivating these reforms journeyed from the writings of neoliberal intellectuals into government and became the centrepiece of a plan to abolish significant parts of the UKs welfare state and replace these with privatised personal pensions. Revealing a government that veered between political caution and radicalism, the book explains why this revolution failed and charts the malign legacy left by the evolutionary changes that ministers salvaged from the wreckage of their reforms.

The book contributes to understanding of policy change, Thatcherism, and international neoliberalism by showing how major reforms to social security could reflect neoliberal thought and yet profoundly disappoint their architects.

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  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 30 Jul 2024
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781526146526

About Dr Aled DaviesDr James FreemanHugh Pemberton

Aled Davies is Darby Fellow in Modern History at Lincoln College University of Oxford.James Freeman is Senior Lecturer in Political History and Digital Humanities at the University of Bristol.Hugh Pemberton is Emeritus Professor of Contemporary British History at the University of Bristol.

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