Converting the Workforce: Defence Industry Conversion in the Industrialised Countries.

Ball, Nicole

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Publication Date: 1986

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Converting the Workforce: Defence Industry Conversion in the Industrialised Countries.

Ball, Nicole

International Labour Review, v125 n4 p401-22 Jul-Aug 1986

The author analyzes the economics of weapons production in respect to the industries and occupations that are most dependent on defense conrating and discusses the problems that different groups of defense industry employees encounter in transferring to the civil sector. (Author/CT)

Descriptors: Developed Nations, Dislocated Workers, Economic Factors, Employment Opportunities, Labor Force, Retraining, Weapons

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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