Synopsis
Governments around the world liberalise trade and withdraw from intervening in the economy, giving new opportunities to those who are skilled, industrious and adaptable, but disrupts the social order for others.
- Programme: People's Century
- Series: 3
- Episode: 26: 1997: Fast Forward
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 1997
- History
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