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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.