Redundancy and regional unemployment: A case study in Ózd

Abstract

The package of measures widely known as the ‘Ózd Model’ calculated to deal with the consequences of industrial restructuring does not do enough to alleviate the problems of a depressed region. Workers at present have no effective institutions to represent their interests at the workplace when managers seek to implement employment reduction. A more active employment policy on the part of the authorities is required if extensive occupational destabilization is to be avoided.

Notes

For an earlier and more detailed version of this paper see Sziráczki, ‘Redundancy and Unemployment in a North Hungarian Steel Valley’, Labour and Society, Vol. 12, No. 4 (1988), pp.399–414.