OCTOBER 29, 1929
Tags: STOCKS (Finance); PLANT shutdowns; DEPRESSIONS -- 1929; DEINDUSTRIALIZATION; UNEMPLOYMENT
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- Plant Closings: Establishing Legal Obligations. Collins, Denis // Labor Law Journal;Feb89, Vol. 40 Issue 2, p67
The article examines efforts to establish legal obligations assigned to companies to protect employees from plant closings in the United States. The impact of plant closings on the lives of former employees and members of the local communities are also examined. Arguments for and against...
- Lear closing Michigan plant. // Canadian Plastics;Jul2004, Vol. 62 Issue 7, p10
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- Rail Riders. // Current Events;2/22/2010, Vol. 109 Issue 17, p5
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- A blacksmith grows up. // Trailer / Body Builders;Jan2005, Vol. 46 Issue 3, p47
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- The Politics of Shutdown: Community, Property, Corporatism. Lustig, H. Jeffrey // Journal of Economic Issues (Association for Evolutionary Economi;Mar85, Vol. 19 Issue 1, p123
Towns, regions, and individual working people find themselves threatened by the destruction of jobs, plants, and the nation's basic productive capacity. The wave of current closures in the U.S. reveals a larger pattern of deindustrialization, a process of "widespread, systematic disinvestment in...
