June 29, 2023 OP-ED - Selected document | Deindustrialisation and ‘Thatcherism’: moral economy and unintended consequences

June 29, 2023 OP-ED - Selected document | Deindustrialisation and ‘Thatcherism’: moral economy and unintended consequences

The first period of the Conservative government under Margaret Thatcher in 1979-1983 saw an extraordinary acceleration of de-industrialisation.