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Originally Posted by Mancie
I left school in the 70's and the jobs scence was decent..you could walk around to local business or the even the larger manufacturing companies and ask for a job and sometimes be employed..all that changed when Thatcher got in..the then large manufactuers like the engineering went down hill and the small businesses could pick and choose the youngsters they employed in no future jobs like selling Xmas cards and such..any building work was all of a sudden run by a near enough closed shop of agencies..from a working town point of view Accrington died
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We were exporting jobs out of the country long before the Thatcher Era.
I worked in a weaving mill in 1966 that transferred lock stock and barrel to South Africa, manufacturing costs were cheaper.
I was out of work for only one week.
Much of industry went the same way...sanctioned by the government of the time, who were more interested in exporting(Queen's Award to Industry - Exports) without looking at the future consequences...after all they were not worried, it was not going to be their problem.
Now we are left with a small manufacturing base(which is getting smaller) because we simply cannot compete with places like China and India.