Redundancy, readjustment, and employability: What can we learn from the 2000 Harland and Wolff redundancy?

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1651-1668

  Shuttleworth, Ian ^a   Tyler, Peter ^b   McKinstry, Darren ^c  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; LABOR MARKET; UNEMPLOYMENT;

BELFAST [BELFAST (DST)]; BELFAST [NORTHERN IRELAND]; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN IRELAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 25444533279     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a37250     Document Type: Article

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