ABSTRACT
During the last decade Sheffield lost half its manufacturing employment but the manufacturing sector still employs about 60,000 workers or one-quarter of the city's employed population. The industrial landscape of Sheffield provides striking evidence of both surviving industries and the re-use of former industrial sites. Sheffield has a highly specialised manufacturing structure, two industries accounting for 50 per cent of the manufacturing employment and four industries account for 70 per cent. There are virtually no plants associated with new technologies such as data processing and instrument engineering and the two dominant industries are metal goods and mechanical engineering. These are some of the several sports related facilities being constructed to provide venues for the world student games to be held in Sheffield in 1991. The overall image of Sheffield in the 1990s is of a city with a strong manufacturing sector accompanied by dramatic additions to the service sector.
