The Incidence and Nature of Redundancy in the Northern Ireland Shipbuilding Industry 1972 - 1983
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4142829 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R T Harrison (Department of Business Studies, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland), Richard Harrison (0000-0002-0154-0039, Queen's University Belfast, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 1225-1236 |
| Publication date | 1986-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/a181225 |
| OpenAlex | W1972625672 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 16 |
The severity of the recession in Britain in the late 1970s and 1980s has stimulated considerable interest in the analysis of the spatial and sectoral incidence of redundancy. In this paper two separate approaches to this topic are identified. In the labour-market - manpower analysis approach detailed empirical case studies were used to assess the local labour-market impact of specific major redundancies. More recently, aggregate official data have been used to investigate the sectoral and spatial incidence of recession in Great Britain. This paper extends this second approach by analysing, for the first time, some aspects of the incidence of redundancy in Northern Ireland. It is argued that trends in the level and incidence of redundancy are strongly affected by sectoral influences, and the analysis is concentrated in particular on the examination of redundancies in the regional shipbuilding industry between 1972 and 1983. It is concluded that redundancies in this sector differ from those elsewhere in the regional economy in terms of both nature and timing: shipbuilding redundancies affected predominantly older and male workers and peaked two or three years later than redundancies in other sectors. This pattern can be related to changes in the external market conditions facing the industry in the late 1970s, and to the specific corporate response of Harland and Wolff plc to these in the 1980s
Economic geography · Economics · Economy · Geography · Macroeconomics · Recession · Shipbuilding · Economic Zones and Regional Development · Engineering · Regional Economic and Spatial Analysis · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis
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Job loss and the regions
Contrasting experience of recession and spatial restructuring
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Redundancy, Unemployment and Manpower Policy
Technological Change, Industrial Evolution, and Regional Repercussions
The Changing Milieu of a Firm
The Impact of Recession, on Industry, Employment, and the Regions 1976-81
Recession and the Regions in Great Britain, 1976-1980
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 2005 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |