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“... public sector jobs and other programmes and services was cut. Paying tribute to the work of Ruth WilsonGilmore, Shanahan describes the way that, under Mayor Koch, who governed between 1978 and 1989, the bureaucracies supporting policing, courts, jails and prisons grew to dwarf those of the welfare ...”

“... media scapegoating. Heath called the ‘Who governs Britain?’ general election, and lost. Harold Wilson’s Labour government then pushed the unions into a policy of supposedly voluntary wage restraint with the Social Contract, while continuing to let unemployment rise and living standards fall. People were ‘once again bemused and confused by the spectacle ...”