Kirkham, Janet; Richbell, Suzanne; Watts, Doug - In: International Journal of Manpower 20 (1999) 7, pp. 458-468
The runaway shop (a plant closure to avoid labour problems) has been seen as a feature of industrial change in the USA. Evidence of the runaway shop has also been noted in the UK. This paper analyses two data sets from the UK. The first, drawn from data relating primarily to the early 1980s,...
