ABSTRACT

Levels of unemployment and the disparities between the levels in different areas of the country have traditionally been important in influencing the application of restrictions and grants to modify patterns of industrial activity. This chapter shows that the changing national rates of unemployment for both males and females. It also shows that the June unemployment rates for the nation's regions and major cities for each year since 1970. The chapter explores the evaluated trends for males and females in June 1975 for all the sub-regions of Britain. It also explores this important feature for males isolating the industrial north-east, the South Wales valleys, northwest Wales and Glasgow as the extremes in high sensitivity. The penultimate downturn to be considered also poses some interesting male-female differences. This, by far the deepest recession of the 1970s, hit female unemployment rates probably harder than those for males.