STRATEGY AND JOB CHOICE AFTER REDUNDANCY: A CASE STUDY INN THE AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY.

In this article, authors' wish to argue that the individual's attitude towards his work and the problems he faces in redundancy are structured to a great extent by the relationships that he experiences at his workplace and in his worklife. They found that the response to redundancy and the subsequent jobs search of their sample of redundant workers could be most usefully understood in terms of the groupings formed on the basis of the technological or organizational system operating in a particular firm and, more generally, in a industry. Entry was obtained to a aircraft firm located in the Midlands which was due to close down at the end of 1970. A systematic, one in three, sample of male manual workers and weekly staff was drawn. Respondents were interviewed in the firm during November 1970 and re-interviewed in their homes approximately six months later. The total sample was 124, which reduced to 112 at the second interview.