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Financial services workers: paying for it
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Protesters calling for banking reform at a rally to mark the 10th anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the financial crisis, outside the Royal Exchange building in the City of London
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Ten years ago this month, the collapse of Lehman Brothers was the first thunderclap of what would become the storm of the great financial crisis of 2008-2009. The first rumble to be heard was of the panic around subprime mortgages in the United States.
The contagion spread to Britain, with the first run on a bank in one hundred and fifty years happening. This was Northern Rock. It was “nationalised” along with some other building societies and Royal Bank of Scotland and LloydsTSB. Barclays only avoided needing a government bailout due to securing questionable loans from Qatar.
The contagion spread into the wider economic system in Britain, with the credit crunch giving way to a financial crash and then a recession and that recession then gave way to an age of austerity in public spending and welfare which we are still living with today.
For a crisis that started in the financial services sector and for a sector that was affected more by the crisis than any another, relatively little is known about how it has affected the workers in this particular sector of the economy.
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