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Public sector pensions are one of the hard-won victories of the
20th century labour movement, but they did not come through the
neoliberal era unchanged. They are now managed like any other
investment fund and are implicated in all the faults of global
capital. Union researcher Tom Fraser joins Team Advantage to
discuss the political economy of pension funds and the forgotten
horizons of revolutionary possibility they once represented.Check
out Tom's new book - Invested in Crisis: Public Sector Pensions Against
the Future
Other works mentioned by Tom:
- Maple Revolutionaries - The Economist
- The North will rise again: pensions, politics and power in the 1980s - Jeremy Rifkin
- Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism - Quinn Slobodian
- Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of imperialism - Kwame Nkrumah
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