Postscript In the Depths of the Slump

Robert Taylor

A chapter in Workers and the New Depression, 1982, pp 198-202 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract By the spring of 1982 Britain’s slump was accelerating the contraction of the manual working class. Its sheer ferocity has cut a swath through the ranks of manufacturing industry. Between June 1979 and January 1982 as many as 1300 000 jobs were lost in manufacturing, nearly 19 per cent of the entire labour force in that sector. In just two and a half years one third of all workers in metal manufacturing and a quarter of textile workers lost their jobs. In mechanical engineering just under 200000 jobs disappeared, over one in five of the workforce. Nearly 20 per cent of building workers went as well. By contrast, a mere 45 000 jobs went in public administration and defence over the same period from a workforce of 1 566 000 and only 6 000 jobs out of 335 000 in the public sector monopolies of gas, water and electricity.

Keywords: Labour Market; Collective Bargaining; Manual Worker; Industrial Relation; Metal Manufacturing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1982
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-16923-8_8

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