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The entry to self‐employment of redundant steelworkers
Author(s) -
Lee Raymond M.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
industrial relations journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.525
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1468-2338
pISSN - 0019-8692
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2338.1985.tb00513.x
Subject(s) - workforce , corporation , redundancy (engineering) , operations management , port (circuit theory) , work (physics) , management , labour economics , business , economics , engineering , finance , economic growth , mechanical engineering , reliability engineering
The British Steel Corporation's ‘slimline’ plan of 1980 halved the workforce at the Port Talbot plant in South Wales. This article reports the findings of a three stage sample survey from 1981 to 1982 of the work experiences of those who became self‐employed following redundancy.