Shutdown at Youngstown

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Shutdown at Youngstown
Public Policy for Mass Unemployment

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Terry F. Buss - Author
F. Stevens Redburn - Author

SUNY series in Urban Public Policy

Price: $51.50
Hardcover - 236 pages

Release Date: June 1983

ISBN10: 0-87395-646-X
ISBN13: 978-0-87395-646-8

Price: $26.95
Paperback - 236 pages

Release Date: June 1983

ISBN10: 0-87395-647-8
ISBN13: 978-0-87395-647-5

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Summary

In spite of the gravity of the problem of mass unemployment and its periodic recurrence in industrial societies, few scientific studies have been undertaken which serve to define the impact of plant closings on workers, families, and the community; to evaluate individual group, or community responses to closings; and to offer suggestions for the future.

Shutdown at Youngstown meets this need. It presents the findings of a multidisciplinary, scientific study of the closing of the steel mills in Youngstown in 1977 which put 5,000 persons out of work. Research reported in the text is based on personal interviews, social indicator data, and data from health and human service agencies. The authors conclude by developing a public policy for dealing with plant closings and the crisis of mass unemployment.

Terry F. Buss is Director of the Center for Urban Studies at Youngstown State University. F. Stevens Redburn is Social Science Research Analyst at the Office for Policy Development and Research, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Table of Contents

Individuals Interviewed
Figures
Tables
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction

Part 1. Background

2. Black Monday: The Closing of Youngstown Sheet and Tube

Part 2. Impact of the Closing

Overview
3. The Psychological Impact of the Shutdown
4. The Community Impact of the Shutdown

Part 3. Responding to the Crisis

Overview
5. Reemployment, Retraining, and Relocation
6. Other Responses: Individuals and Agencies

Part 4. Social Policies for Mass Unemployment

Overview
7. Employment Policy
8. Human Services Policies
9. The Longer Run

Appendix A. Methodology
Appendix B. Politics of a Plant Closing
Appendix C. Measurement of Mental Health
Appendix D. Euology to a Shutdown Steel Mill

Notes
References
Index

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