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In the eight years 1977–84 there were 3.5 million ‘confirmed’ redundancies in Great Britain. In 1985 the number is about 200 000.1
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MSC, Closure at Linwood: A Follow-up Survey of Redundant Workers (1984), p. 1.
R. Pauley, ‘Warning over loss of capital equipment’, Financial Times, 2 August 1985.
R.B. McKersie and W. Singenburger, Job Losses in Major Industries: Manpower Strategy Responses (OECD, 1983), pp. 82–3.
J. Lloyd, ‘A new pattern which should not come unstitched’, Financial Times, 7 August 1985.
T. Rainer, ‘Plant closure’, in Handbook of German Business Management (1987).
J. Crisp, ‘Hewlett-Packard cuts pay by 5%’, Financial Times, 13 September 1985.
Earnings per share (Eps) always moves the same way up or down as return on equity capital, but not necessarily as return on total capital including loans; see E. Whiting, A Guide to Business Performance Measurements (Macmillan, 1986), pp. 247–9.
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Whiting, E. (1987). Averting closure and redundancy. In: A Guide to Unemployment Reduction Measures. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08621-4_22
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