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A paper which considers the extent to which privatisation in the UK has succeeded in Thatcher's aim of "rolling back the state", with specific reference to BR and the Post Office, and also looks at the problems inherent in regulating privatised industries. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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File: JL5_JLrolback.rtf
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and at the extent to which both privatisation and regulation have been effective from the perspective of both the expansion of the market, and industrial relations in Britain, it is
perhaps helpful to consider the concept of "rolling back the State" and how it differs now from its inception in the latter part of the twentieth century.
If we look at the role of the state in the 1960s and 1970s, we can see that it plays a major part in both industry and
welfare; the Conservative governments strategies to "roll back" the state incorporated not only the wide scale privatisation of public industries - transport, telecoms and utilities, for instance - but also
a deliberate shift away from the postwar welfare model. Cuts in social security, health and welfare provision, ostensibly intended to steer people away from reliance on the state and towards
a greater degree of self-responsibility and autonomy, were undermined by high unemployment rates and the severe lack of jobs in various regions of the country, especially those where large industries,
such as mining, had been destroyed. At the same time, support for government policies from some sectors of the working class was achieved by such
programmes as council house sales, which allowed some degree of upward social mobility. Clearly, some aspects of privatisation could be considered as highly positive: improving quality of service through competition,
for instance, or streamlining the welfare "safety net" in a way which focused on areas of greatest genuine need. Interestingly,
however, Eliot (2001) argues that increasing privatisation and "rolling back the state" was not a deliberate strategy on the part of the Thatcher government, that in reality privatisation commenced under
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