A history and the rationale for DB schemes - part three: TPR and its Foucauldian disciplinary powers

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In the third feature of a three-part series, Iain Clacher and Con Keating look back at the UK’s defined benefit universe, exploring how the arrival of TPR impacted scheme funding

Our two previous articles considered the development of occupational defined benefit (DB) pensions from the early post-war period until the eve, in 2004, of the regime under which we currently oper...

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