Craig Berry is Reader in Political Economy and Deputy Director of Future Economies at Manchester Metropolitan University. His previous roles include Deputy Director of the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Sheffield, Policy Advisor at HM Treasury, Pensions Policy Officer at the Trades Union Congress, and Head of Policy and Senior Researcher at the International Longevity Centre. He has also taught at Manchester and Warwick universities, and in 2017 served on the Industrial Strategy Commission. His books include The Political Economy of Industrial Strategy in the UK (with Julie Froud and Tom Barker), Developing England's North (with Arianna Giovannini), Austerity Politics and UK Economic Policy, and Globalisation and Ideology in Britain.

Original and thorough, Pensions Imperilled provides a myth-busting analysis of pensions provision as a crucial element of British capitalist management, in comparative perspective. Presenting a unique treatment of temporality, and denouncing the inherent contradiction of an intergenerational collective arrangement that is increasingly premised on individualism and (further) financialization, Berry sounds the alarm for a UK pension crisis that has barely begun. A must-read for a multidisciplinary and truly inter-generational understanding of the perennial policy puzzles involving private pensions.

• 1: Introduction: Pensions Imperilment and Political Economy 2: The Liberal Collectivist Experiment: The Historical Development of UK Pensions Provision 3: The Pensions Multiverse: Capitalist Diversity and Pensions Transformation 4: A Good Innings? The Demise of Collectivism in (Mostly) Private Pensions Provision 5: False Dawn: Individualization and the Perversion of Pensions Saving 6: Auto-Pilot: The State's Role in Delivering (and Endangering) Workplace Pensions 7: Many Happy Returns? Investment Governance and the Political Economy of Time in UK Pensions Provision 8: Conclusion: Summary and Policy Options

Craig Berry is Reader in Political Economy and Deputy Director of Future Economies at Manchester Metropolitan University. His previous roles include Deputy Director of the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Sheffield, Policy Advisor at HM Treasury, Pensions Policy Officer at the Trades Union Congress, and Head of Policy and Senior Researcher at the International Longevity Centre. He has also taught at Manchester and Warwick universities, and in 2017 served on the Industrial Strategy Commission. His books include The Political Economy of Industrial Strategy in the UK (with Julie Froud and Tom Barker), Developing England's North (with Arianna Giovannini), Austerity Politics and UK Economic Policy, and Globalisation and Ideology in Britain.

Original and thorough, Pensions Imperilled provides a myth-busting analysis of pensions provision as a crucial element of British capitalist management, in comparative perspective. Presenting a unique treatment of temporality, and denouncing the inherent contradiction of an intergenerational collective arrangement that is increasingly premised on individualism and (further) financialization, Berry sounds the alarm for a UK pension crisis that has barely begun. A must-read for a multidisciplinary and truly inter-generational understanding of the perennial policy puzzles involving private pensions.

• 1: Introduction: Pensions Imperilment and Political Economy 2: The Liberal Collectivist Experiment: The Historical Development of UK Pensions Provision 3: The Pensions Multiverse: Capitalist Diversity and Pensions Transformation 4: A Good Innings? The Demise of Collectivism in (Mostly) Private Pensions Provision 5: False Dawn: Individualization and the Perversion of Pensions Saving 6: Auto-Pilot: The State's Role in Delivering (and Endangering) Workplace Pensions 7: Many Happy Returns? Investment Governance and the Political Economy of Time in UK Pensions Provision 8: Conclusion: Summary and Policy Options

Craig Berry is Reader in Political Economy and Deputy Director of Future Economies at Manchester Metropolitan University. His previous roles include Deputy Director of the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Sheffield, Policy Advisor at HM Treasury, Pensions Policy Officer at the Trades Union Congress, and Head of Policy and Senior Researcher at the International Longevity Centre. He has also taught at Manchester and Warwick universities, and in 2017 served on the Industrial Strategy Commission. His books include The Political Economy of Industrial Strategy in the UK (with Julie Froud and Tom Barker), Developing England's North (with Arianna Giovannini), Austerity Politics and UK Economic Policy, and Globalisation and Ideology in Britain.

Original and thorough, Pensions Imperilled provides a myth-busting analysis of pensions provision as a crucial element of British capitalist management, in comparative perspective. Presenting a unique treatment of temporality, and denouncing the inherent contradiction of an intergenerational collective arrangement that is increasingly premised on individualism and (further) financialization, Berry sounds the alarm for a UK pension crisis that has barely begun. A must-read for a multidisciplinary and truly inter-generational understanding of the perennial policy puzzles involving private pensions.

• 1: Introduction: Pensions Imperilment and Political Economy 2: The Liberal Collectivist Experiment: The Historical Development of UK Pensions Provision 3: The Pensions Multiverse: Capitalist Diversity and Pensions Transformation 4: A Good Innings? The Demise of Collectivism in (Mostly) Private Pensions Provision 5: False Dawn: Individualization and the Perversion of Pensions Saving 6: Auto-Pilot: The State's Role in Delivering (and Endangering) Workplace Pensions 7: Many Happy Returns? Investment Governance and the Political Economy of Time in UK Pensions Provision 8: Conclusion: Summary and Policy Options