Wining and losing as a result of economic restructuring in Britain since 1980

Type :

Term papers

Pages :

5 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

03/18/2009

Category :

Economics & finance

Sub category :

Economics

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Summary :

Introduction
The end of the Second World War
The two decades which followed the end of the war
The growth of 'flexibilization' within the British economy
The economic effects of the change from Fordism to functional specialization
The individuals who comprise the ?core' group within the ?ideal type' of the flexible firm
Conclusion
Bibliography

Abstract

During the past thirty years, British society has been involved in a dynamic of social change, a process so significant that it represents an historical turning point, when the certainties that have served to regulate the economy in the past, are no longer valid. The last comparable event was the Industrial Revolution, which resulted in the majority of the population moving away from agricultural work to manufacturing work, with fewer and fewer agricultural workers supplying the food needs of the masses. since the mid 1960's a similar process has occurred in relation to the proportion of the labor force engaged in manufacturing products for the rest of the population. The three decades of economic prosperity that followed the end of the Second World War, were to lead eventually to manufacturing decline and the growth of a service economy, a transition from an 'industrial' to a 'post industrial society'. (Bell, 1973) It is the decline of the manufacturing industries and the rise of the service sector that forms the basis for this piece of work.