CORPORATE DISINVESTMENT AND METROPOLITAN MANUFACTURING JOB LOSS

Patterns of establishment start-up, closure, and contraction across geographic areas and industries within the corporate families of a sample of 283 manufacturing plants that either closed or contracted in employment in the Chicago SMSA are examined for the 1977-81 period. The scale of corporate dis...

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Published inSocial science quarterly Vol. 66; no. 1; pp. 218 - 226
Main Authors SHEETS, Robert G., SMITH, Russell L., VOYTEK, Kenneth P.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Austin, Tex University of Texas Press 01.03.1985
University of Texas Press, in cooperation with the Southwestern Social Science Association
Subjects
Chicago metropolitan area
Corporate growth
Corporations
Disinvestment
Employment
Factories
Industrial growth
Job loss
Manufacturing
Manufacturing industries
Metropolitan areas
Plant closings
Research Notes
Shutdowns
Start up firms
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Summary:Patterns of establishment start-up, closure, and contraction across geographic areas and industries within the corporate families of a sample of 283 manufacturing plants that either closed or contracted in employment in the Chicago SMSA are examined for the 1977-81 period. The scale of corporate disinvestment is found to be quite large, with complex shifts within and across industries and regions. The findings suggest that much of the business start-up and growth activity of the Sunbelt may be a function of capital shifts of diversified, multi-establishment corporations.
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ISSN:0038-4941
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