4. Services to Workers Facing Plant Shutdowns: California and Canada

Abstract

During the past decade some fundamental economic changes have occurred in the United States and other industrialised nations which resulted in a dramatic increase in the numbers of plant closings and major permanent workforce reductions in firms and industries. Some of the reasons for these economic changes are: the restructuring of several major basic industries; intense foreign competition; lagging or declining growth rates in some industries; the modernisation of production through labour‐saving technologies; poor management; a lack of sufficient investment; and shifts in growth away from basic industries and into energy, high technology and service sectors.

Citation

Hansen, G.B. (1986), "4. Services to Workers Facing Plant Shutdowns: California and Canada", International Journal of Manpower, Vol. 7 No. 1, pp. 35-52. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb045054