Helen McCarthy
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View article: <i>Planning for Retirement in Post-war Britain</i>
<i>Planning for Retirement in Post-war Britain</i> Open
This article explores how Britons envisaged and planned for the end of working life across the second half of the twentieth century. It shows how retirement was established in this period as a transition in the life course for which indivi…
View article: Flexible Workers: The Politics of Homework in Postindustrial Britain
Flexible Workers: The Politics of Homework in Postindustrial Britain Open
This article opens up a new perspective on market liberalism's triumph in the late twentieth century through an examination of the political battles that were fought in Britain over the regulation of homework. Ubiquitous in the late Victor…