Abstract
‘Manufacturing Capitalists’: The Wider Share Ownership Council and the Problem of ‘Popular Capitalism’, 1958–92
Highlights
Popular capitalism has been widely recognized by contemporaries and historians alike as an integral part of Thatcherism
This article takes a small pressure group, the Wider Share Ownership Council (WSOC), as a case study to demonstrate that Thatcherism entailed a set of institutional reforms which favoured certain interests in the City, at the expense of the individual consumer
This article takes a small pressure group, the Wider Share Ownership Council (WSOC), as a case study to demonstrate that for the private investor the 1980s were characterized by the defence of financial capitalism, as opposed to the advancement of consumer capitalism.[3]
Summary
This article takes a small pressure group, the Wider Share Ownership Council (WSOC), as a case study to demonstrate that Thatcherism entailed a set of institutional reforms which favoured certain interests in the City, at the expense of the individual consumer.
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