
Fiona Hill, "There Is Nothing for You Here: Opportunity in an Age of Decline" (Mariner Books, 2021)
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The Industrial Revolution in the United Kingdom
When i was born, the mines were all closing. The whole region was being turned on its head. And as i got into my phase of political awareness, which we all can have reached some time inn our teens, when i was about 14, margaret thatcher became the prime minister of the united kingdom 19 79. Thatcher wanted to turn the economy around,. modernized it been a move away from this mass manufacturing, heavy industrial profile and nationalized industry in the uke. It results in these tussles with the miners union, with all kinds of o other sectors of the british economy. And it results in mass lay offs.
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