The Human Response to Plant Closures

Kenneth Root

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1984, vol. 475, issue 1, 52-65

Abstract: How do displaced workers cope with job loss? Is the adjustment of workers confronting a shutdown today different from the adjustment of those who were put on the shelf in the mid-1970s? Comparison of longitudinal data from a Mason City, Iowa, meat-packing shutdown in the mid-1970s with responses to similar items from workers displaced when a major automotive supplier firm in Wisconsin closed in 1980 and from respondents who lost their jobs in farm-manufacturing and meat-processing closures in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1981 indicate that job loss is still the plight of the individual worker and his or her immediate family. Workers continue to cut back on expenses, extend their informal network of relatives and friends for employment possibilities, and, where possible, send a spouse into the work force.

Date: 1984
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