Redundancy, Labour Markets and Informal Relations

As a result of its 'slimline' plan put into effect in May 1980, the British Steel Corporation made nearly 6,000 workers redundant from its Abbey Works in Port Talbot. The relationship between redundancies at the plant, the labour market experiences of those made redundant and the way in which the two are mediated by informal relational structures is examined. It is argued (a) that the labour market chances of those made redundant were structured by the character of the redundancy process which made certain kinds of worker vulnerable to selection for redundancy; and (b) that the operation of the labour market changed as a result of the redundancies in ways which advantaged those among the redundant who were informally linked to certain kinds of opportunities on the demand side of the labour market. Some wider implications of the patterns found are discussed

Business · Corporation · Economics · Labour economics · Redundancy (engineering) · Sociology · Computer Science · Finance · Labor Movements and Unions

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  Open Access•Beryl Dick, Glenn Morgan•Work Employment and Society•1987

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• How redundancies worsen social inequality

  Open Access•Bryn Jones, Peter Nisbet•International Journal of…•1999

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• The Greatest Game no More - Redundant Dockers and the Demise of 'Dock Work

  Open Access•Peter Turnbull, Victoria Wa et al.•Work Employment and Society•1994

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• Unemployed Professionals, Stigma Management and Derivative Stigmata

  Open Access•Paul G Letkemann, Paul Letkemann•Work Employment and Society•2002

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• Informal Practices, Flexible Firms and Private Labour Markets

  Open Access•Ralph Fevre•Sociology•1989

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• Unemployment and health

  Open Access•Mel Bartley•Sociology of Health & Illness•1988

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• Health and Labour Force Participation

  Open Access•Mel Bartley•Journal of Social Policy•1991

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