work opportunities and conditions, 1939-79
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- Work opportunities and conditions, 1939-79
- Second World War
- Wartime employment
- Ernest Bevin - Essential Work Order (1941) - essential jobs for work effort, hard to dismiss
- Shortage of skilled workers - Control of Employment Act (1939) allowed semi-skilled to to skilled jobs
- Exempt from military service
- 'Bevin boys' - 10% of young men went to the coals instead of military service
- Shortage of skilled workers - Control of Employment Act (1939) allowed semi-skilled to to skilled jobs
- Working conditions improved - medical centres/ canteens/ creches/ 'Worker's Playtime' radio programme
- Wages were increased, though hours were long
- Ernest Bevin - Essential Work Order (1941) - essential jobs for work effort, hard to dismiss
- Movement to wartime production
- Full employment
- Working conditions improved
- Mass unemployment disappeared
- Conditions/wages/benefits improved
- Working conditions improved
- Women in factories
- 1930s idle factories became fully operational munitions factories
- Full employment
- Wartime employment
- Full employment in the 1950s and 1960s
- Employment opportunities
- Better education/economy - choice/flexibility in employment
- Inheriting jobs became less common
- Growth of white-collar/ technological jobs - electronics/light engineering/consumer goods
- Required more managers
- 'More satisfying' jobs
- Growth in the service sector too (e.g. tourism/shops/restaurants)
- Growth of white-collar/ technological jobs - electronics/light engineering/consumer goods
- Inheriting jobs became less common
- Better education/economy - choice/flexibility in employment
- Work in factories
- e.g. car industry
- Problems with tedium - repetitive work was boring (worsened with automation)
- Only benefit was pay - people could buy more as technology/mass production developed too
- c. government commitment
- c. favourable economic conditions
- Impacted industrial relations - employers needed skilled workers/ used attractive wages/working conditions
- More likely to leave a job
- Especially in one-industry regions e.g. Nottingham and textiles
- Offered benefits - cheap canteens, sports, social clubs, outings/functions
- More likely to leave a job
- Employment opportunities
- Growth of unemployment in the 1970s
- Before prioritisation of inflation
- Officially prioritised 1976 (market forces would have a greater role)
- Industrial problems
- Umemployment 1m in 1972
- Decline of heavy industry
- More acute in industrialised parts (North/Wales etc)
- e.g. the west Midlands and car manufacturing - knock-on effects
- No alternative - downturn bit hard
- More acute in industrialised parts (North/Wales etc)
- Before prioritisation of inflation
- Second World War
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