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A process of international industrial restructuring combined with an on-going crisis is currently taking place in Western Europe. Industries like electrical instruments, electronics, steel and ship-building are strongly affected. In a number of cases large plants have been completely closed down, pointing to a possible industrial decline of whole regions. Multinational corporations, with their capacity to concentrate and allocate their production according to comprehensive inter-regional strategies, have been a major factor in this restructuring. The workforce of these plants and the population of their surrounding regions have been confronted with a new situation owing to the mobility of multinationals.
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Aydin, S., Lenz, I. (1989). Fighting Plant Closure: Women In the Strike at Videocolor. In: Elson, D., Pearson, R. (eds) Women’s Employment and Multinationals in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19908-2_9
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