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The Cost of Unemployment

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Since 1971 the Triang toy factory in Merthyr Tydfil has been in a condition of expensive decline, alternating between imminent closure and last-minute rescue. Men whose jobs may vanish for ever struggle for the support to stave off redundancy. But does the promise of State aid just encourage lame ducks to limp with greater pathos? Which alternative can we least afford, financially and socially? Jeremy Bugler reports on the chances of Triang and other factories like it.
Producer KAY EVANS
(Repeated: Mon 11.0 am)

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Producer:
Kay Evans
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