Industrial Restructuring and Gendered Employment Palterns A Presentation of a Research Project

Abstract

This paper presents some of the results from the Structural Change Project (the STOP project) conducted at the Swedish Center for Working Life (Arbetslivscentrum). It starts with a summary of the subjects of the project, the issues covered and the methods used, and then presents the main findings of the project. This is followed by a discussion of the specific employment patterns that emerged for men and women in two case-studies that formed part of the project. These two studies describe cutbacks in a shipyard and the closure of a telecommunications plant in the same area. It is thus a comparison of the post-redundancy employment records of men and women.