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Plant Closings and Worker Displacement: the Regional Issues. (book reviews)

Plant Closings and Worker Displacement: The Regional Issues.

By Marie Howland. Kalamazoo, Mich.: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1988.

From virtually the beginning of research and analysis on plant closings and worker displacement, the principal focus has been on worker and community adjustment in local labor markets. Why and where plants close has received much less, often only cursory attention. This first-rate study not only concentrates on the patterns and determinants of plant closings, but integrates that part of the research with its analys

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