Full Description
Worker redundancy has become a widespread social phenomenon in industrialised countries over the past 50 years. Originally published in 1987, this book, based on extensive original research, examines the nature of redundancy and its effects. It focuses in particular on the process of redundancy itself, on the complex relationship between redundancy situations and the labour market, on the impact of redundancy on the quality of life of those affected and on the relationship between redundancy and issues of race, gender and politics. It draws on material from the United States, Britain and Western Europe.
Contents
1.Introduction Raymond M. Lee 2. Redundancy and Class Analysis C. C. Harris 3. Redundant Populations: Deindustrialisation in a North-East English Town Lydia Morris 4. Redundancy and the Labour Market: The Role of 'Readaptation Benefits' Ralph Fevre 5. Redundancy and the Older Worker Bill Bytheway 6. Ethnic Inequality in Layoff Chances: The Impact of Unionisation on Layoff Procedure Daniel B. Cornfield 7. Women and the Redundancy Process: A Case Study Claire Callender 8. Plant Closing: A Comparison of Effects on Women and Men Workers Carolyn C. Perrucci, Dena B. Targ, Robert Perrucci and Harry R. Targ 9. Workers' Struggles in Steel in France and in the USA: Autonomy and Constraint at Longwy, Lorraine and at Youngstown, Ohio Olivier Kourchid 10. 'Save Dorothy': A Political Response to Structural Change in the Steel Industry Cynthia Deitch and Robert Erickson 11. Unemployment After Redundancy and Political Attitudes: Some Empirical Evidence Iain Noble 12. Redundancy and Health Mel Bartley.
