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The concept of full employment is first defined then illustrated using the example of Corby, Northants.
The concept of full employment is first defined then illustrated using the example of Corby, Northants.
| Module code and title: | D282, National income and economic policy |
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| Item code: | D282; 04 |
| First transmission date: | 07-05-1972 |
| Published: | 1972 |
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| Duration: | 00:23:37 |
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| Producer: | Nicholas Gosling |
| Contributors: | Anthony Barber; J G Kane; H H Parkin; J N Paxton; Ray Thomas; Eric Wade; R.L. Webster |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Corby; Economic policy; Employment; Macro economics |
| Footage description: | Brief excerpt from interview given by Anthony Barber in 1971 on the subject of unemployment. Barber's answers read over photographs. Ray Thomas defines what is meant by full employment. Animated tables are used in the definition. Thomas examines years in the period 1955 to 1971 as examples. Ray Thomas goes on to describe the types of unemployment that can be isolated and described. Corby has been chosen as a study area to illustrate the varying types of unemployment and the difficulties of deciding the exact nature of the unemployment in a given area. Film of Corby is shown over which Ray Thomas describes it briefly. Film of steelwork activities. Table of unemployment levels in Corby is shown with an analysis of the figures in October 1971. Ray Thomas introduces his interview with Mr. Parkin, manager of the Dept. of Employment office in Corby, in which Thomas' main intention was to discover the different types of unemployment in Corby. Mr. Parkin describes the routine of his office, its methods of notification and advertisement of vacancies to the public. The allowances available to an employee moving from one area to another in order to take up permanent work are listed. Mr. Parkin explains what is done by his office for the unemployed in Corby. Ray Thomas interviews J. N. Paxton, director of a firm which moved to Corby attracted by the labour available. The reasons for the removal are discussed, the success assessed. Ray Thomas, with quotations from his interview with Mr. Parkin, tries to assess how much the unemployment in Corby (in 1971) is structural in nature. Interview with R.L. Webster by Eric Wade. The former explains his arrangements with the Department of Employment and Productivity for recruiting from the unemployed of Corby. Thomas interview with Councillor J.G. Kane of Corby The councillor explains a number of reasons why workmen originally moving to Corby to work in the steel works are now no longer employed by the steel works. Thomas broaches the problem of the unemployed, unwilling despite unemployment, to take the conditions offered by the British Steel Corporation. Mr. Parkin describes briefly the Government-sponsored training schemes that exist for rehabilitation of labour. Thomas now turns to a consideration of the level of demand deficiency unemployment in Corby. Mr. Parkin and Mr. Webster are quoted from their interviews with Thomas and Wade respectively. Ray Thomas analyses the unemployment situation in Corby as it is (November 1971) and then goes on to consider briefly the history of unemployment in Corby since 1963. Animated graphs are used to illustrate the points. Credits. |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/70481 |
| Production number: | 00521_2240 |
| Videofinder number: | 138 |
| Available to public: | no |
