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

A neoliberal revolution? examines the Thatcher government’s attempt to privatise and individualise Britain’s pension system, thereby transforming workers into risk-taking savers with a stake in capitalism. The book explains why this revolution failed and charts the malign legacy left by the evolutionary reforms which ministers salvaged from it.

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.