Plant Closings and Worker Displacement

The Regional Issues

Howland examines the relationship between regional employment shifts and plant closures and describes the implications of that relationship for displaced worker study.

Her findings support an argument against industrial policy as a means of slowing the pace of worker dislocation as well as against concession in wages, utility bills, and taxes as strategies for retaining local jobs. Howland also presents several policy options for both national policy makers and local economic development officials, and argues for increased federal support for local takeovers of closing branch plants and subsidiaries and for financial and adjustment assistance for displaced workers.

"This first-rate study not only concentrates on the patterns and determinants of plant closings, but integrates that part of the research with its analysis of worker displacement." ILR Review

"Howland's contribution is important, for it not only documents the extent of current knowledge about plant closings and their consequences, but it evidences the still-severe limitation in our understanding of these events and their impact." Monthly Labor Review

172 pp. 1988
$15 paper ISBN 0-88099-062-7 / ISBN-13 978-0-88099-062-2.

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