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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"deindustrialisation"”.
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Impacts of deindustrialisation on the labour market and beyond
The 16 publications included in this thesis are the results of a programme of research between 1993 and 2009 into the labour market and labour market-related impacts of the large-scale spatially concentrated losses of industrial jobs in Great Britain from the 1970s to the 1990s. The British …
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Regional economic disparities: the role of agglomeration, deindustrialisation and industrial policy
… across several factors including agglomerations, deindustrialisation and industrial policy. To explore these factors, several research questions have been developed. The overall research question for the PhD is: what impact does cities, decentralisation, deindustrialisation and business and …
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The longer-term labour market and community impacts of deindustrialisation: a comparison of the Northumberland coalfield and the Monongahela Valley mill towns
… on the longer-term impacts of past regional deindustrialisation and, more specifically, the ways in which individual and household decisions have interacted with the local public welfare and cultural context to produce profound long-term community changes, critically affecting future …
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The Wounds of Post-Socialism: The Political Economy of Mortality and Survival in Deindustrialising Towns in Hungary
… relatives. I assess the relationship between deindustrialisation, dominant ownership and the mortality of individuals by random intercept multilevel discrete-time survival modelling. I also investigate the health implications of the lived experience of economic transformation in four towns …
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THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF LIFE AND DEATH IN THE U.S.A.
… risk. Economic decline, notably in the form of deindustrialisation, has fractured working class communities and spawned a highly stratified social structure. In response to this development, American social policy has undergone a distinctive transformation involving a historically unprecedented …
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eThekwini's changing occupational structure : a question of deindustrialization and racial inequality
… houses the city of Durban. It demonstrates that deindustrialisation in eThekwini is undergoing a pattern of middle-income, semi-skilled growth that does not support the polarisation or professionalization hypotheses. It also produces evidence that does not support the argument that …
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Workforce Transition Systems and Job Quality in Times of Occupational Structural Change: the Case of Displaced Manufacturing Workers in 21st Century Germany and the United States.
Deepening deindustrialisation owing to increased globalisation and technological change has destroyed millions of manufacturing jobs in advanced capitalist economies. Despite the sizeable impacts of these shifts, we know little about the specific 21st century job quality trajectories of a ‘most …
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Professionalisation or polarisation? : economic restructuring and changes in Cape Town's labour market
… works focused on how in many cities. progressive deindustrialisation has led to the loss of middle-income jobs, while growth in the service sector has resulted in greater numbers of high- and low-skill and income jobs. Others argued that most cities economies' were becoming increasingly organised …
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The inaccessible city? : a profile of the Vauxhall ward labour market, Liverpool.
… The thesis reveals that the dual processes of deindustrialisation and counterurbanisation have led to a small, residual population remaining in Vauxhall, which is poorly placed to compete for the limited number of job opportunities arising in the city. Detailed analysis by gender reveals that …
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Reconstituting troublesome youth in Newcastle upon Tyne : theorising exclusion in the night-time economy
Following economic stagnation and deindustrialisation in 1970s and 1980s Britain, the shift toward neoliberalism and entrepreneurial urbanism has had profound effects on the ways in which cities are experienced by different socio-cultural groups. As many urban commentators have noted, in the …
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Life in a Northern Town: Call Centres, Labour Markets and Identity in Post-Industrial Middlesbrough
… and cities across the UK have faced processes of deindustrialisation thoroughly transforming the social and cultural landscape for the local population. Middlesbrough, in the North East of England, underwent transformation from labour markets dominated by iron, steel and chemical industries to a …
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Organisational change and resistance : an oral history of the rundown of a long-stay institution for people with learning difficulties
… studies (the management of change); deindustrialisation; and oral history methodology.
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A Cultural Study Of Two-Tone In The Socio-Political And Economic Context Of The 1970s
… Birmingham and Coventry, and the wider issue of deindustrialisation that took place during the 1970s. Furthermore, I examined the local/national music scene. In particular I explored the origins of the first wave of ska music coming from Jamaica, the development of punk music in the second half …
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The Cassa Integrazione Guadagni, unemployment welfare and industrial conflict in post-war Italy, 1941-1987
… conflict on the shop floor. With the onset of deindustrialisation, during the 1980s, the CIG became a powerful tool for the demobilisation of organised labour.
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Levelling Up and Territorial Cohesion: The Places that Now Matter? French and British Regional Policy and Institutions since 2017
… European societies, affected by globalisation, deindustrialisation and European integration, have seen growing regional inequalities. Managing these economic, social and political tensions between prosperous and lagging areas has become a major challenge for policy-makers, increasingly …
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What influences the rise and fall of health research disciplines? Insights from a mixed-method investigation of occupational epidemiological research in the UK
… health (OH) from the National Health Service, deindustrialisation, and neoliberal government policies within public and higher education institutions particularly that focus on economic contribution of science, and research auditing and efficiency, most likely, have the greatest influence on …