Responses to Redundancy: Labour‐Market Experience, Domestic Organisation and Male Social Networks

Abstract

Port Talbot is a settlement of roughly 47,000 inhabitants, situated on the coast of South Wales, between Cardiff and Swansea. It is a town which prospered and grew with the expansion of the local plant of the British Steel Corporation in the 1950s, and until de‐manning began in the late 1960s the vast majority of its male inhabitants were steelworkers. In the summer of 1980 BSC, Port Talbot, saw an already depleted workforce reduced by a further 7,000 (from 12,000 to 5,000). This article presents some of the conclusions to be drawn from an in‐depth study of the labour‐market experience and domestic circumstances of 40 redundant steelworkers and their families.

Citation

Morris, L.D. (1985), "Responses to Redundancy: Labour‐Market Experience, Domestic Organisation and Male Social Networks", International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 12 No. 2, pp. 5-16. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb013985