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Tertiarization and Feminization at the Periphery: The Case of Wales

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Restructuring Capital

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There has been a rapid growth in the size of both service — or tertiary — sector and female employment in Britain since 1960. This increase has been especially significant in peripheral areas such as Wales. In part this is because the rise in both service sector and female employment has been coupled with a decline in employment in traditional industries and hence in male employment. However it is also due to a very substantial increase in the absolute numbers of female and service workers. Almost all of Wales’ service sector expansion has been concentrated in the 1970s, as opposed to the steady British growth throughout the past twenty years; whilst the increase in female employment of some 20 per cent, 1970–80, has been the most rapid in Britain. As a result employment in the service sector and female employment have become increasingly prominent. In 1980 women were 40 per cent of the workforce and the service sector accounted for 56 per cent of all employment.

This paper is based on research financed by an ESRC postgraduate training award. I would like to thank Gareth Rees for his helpful comments.

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. University of Essex, UK

    Howard Newby (Professor of Sociology, Director) (Professor of Sociology, Director)

  2. ESRC Data Archive, UK

    Howard Newby (Professor of Sociology, Director) (Professor of Sociology, Director)

  3. Department of Economic and Social History and Sociology, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK

    Janet Bujra (Lecturer) (Lecturer)

  4. University of Glasgow, UK

    Paul Littlewood (Lecturer in Sociology) (Lecturer in Sociology)

  5. Department of Sociology, University College, Cardiff, UK

    Gareth Rees (Lecturer) (Lecturer)

  6. Department of Town Planning, University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology, Cardiff, UK

    Gareth Rees (Lecturer) (Lecturer)

  7. University College, Cardiff, UK

    Teresa L. Rees (Research Fellow) (Research Fellow)

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Winckler, V. (1985). Tertiarization and Feminization at the Periphery: The Case of Wales. In: Newby, H., Bujra, J., Littlewood, P., Rees, G., Rees, T.L. (eds) Restructuring Capital. Explorations in Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18088-2_9

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