Ewan Gibbs
@ewangibbs
Historian of energy, industry, work and protest. Author of Coal Country. Now writing The Unmaking of the British Working Class. Not always entirely serious.
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20-06-2009 23:19:56
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Male life expectancy in Glasgow is also 73, meaning if the pension age were to rise to 74 that the average Glaswegian man wouldn't even claim a state pension. There's massive class injustices in these proposals, including the forms of work we'd be asking folk to do in their 70s.