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Workforce

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A quarterly report on the world of employment with Brian Redhead
In the ten years to the middle of 1984, the USA created 22 million jobs and Europe lost two million.
(LORD YOUNG, speaking on Workforce, December 1985)
The Secretary of State for
Employment added that one reason for the imbalance is that Europeans fail to take the de-regulation of business as seriously as the Americans.
Brian Redhead discovers that there are other features of the American economy which make it easier for businesses, small and large, to realise their potential. He visits Boston, where traditional industries are on the decline and new ones emerging, to find out more about the American workforce. Consultant JOHN ATKINSON
Producer CHRISTOPHER STONE
(Re-broadcast on Friday at 11.0am)
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Brian Redhead
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Brian Redhead
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John Atkinson
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