Facing Redundancy | 1980s UK | British Industry | What next? | TV Eye | 1981 

This is basically 40 years ago, what have we learned? Well, the government doesn’t give a crap. You need to reinvest in yourself.

From the time when TV journalism was damn good. World in Action was a prime example

Goes against the stereotypes of people being lazy, dim and dependent. All these people both managers and shop-floor workers show they are full of ideas, willing to take risks and hard working.

Thames TV was made redundant on December 31st, 1992. It had only been established in July of 1968.

Very interesting. It's funny how people often talk about bygone years as being "simpler" times, yet I don't remember anyone back then saying, "My word, these times we're living in are so simple". It's probably because a lot of people looking back now were children back then.

Speaking as someone who lived through the period we've seen a dreadful culling of well paid jobs over a prolonged period , from around 1982 onwards . I feel very sorry for youngsters now , opportunities are evaporating almost every day with wages at a minimum.

I remember being close to leaving school around this time. The tone was that most of us wouldn’t find work. I ultimately went into the RN but most struggled.....thx Maggie!

As a former steelworker this takes me back; signing on felt like failure; capitulation. Back then people in industrial towns had decent lives. Since then I have seen quality jobs gradually dismantled one after another, either contracted out or pay and conditions reduced; where once there were rungs on the ladder of promotion the Soviet devised team system is the great leveller, as is it's intent. I also believe the work ethic was broken in the 80's. A tough decade. Robin Witting

My Dad was made redundant in 1983. I left the UK in 1986; the region where I grew up was in Rigor Mortis.

I grew up in Queens Park Wrexham, joined the RAF in 1980 as I could see there was not a great future in the area, a few years later the Steel works were I had been working also closed.

It's like looking down a telescope in time as to what life and attitudes used to be like.

i think everyone is still unemployed ibn Wrexham by the looks of things! Great doc and good to see them doing well.

Love the lack of any kind of PPE when he's mixing those chemicals. Wonder how he's doing now?

I wonder if camera crews from the British film industry often did work in TV news in the 1980's. Most national news in America that I can recall wouldn't have had anything as visually striking as the tracking shot between three seperate redundancy conversations or seperating the estate crowd by how they received unemployment benefits.

No wonder my dad died from breathing problems and cancer and his job was a plumber and he was using asbestos to mixing with plaster to lag pipes and use his bare hands to smear the mixture around the pipes and the building industry used asbestos in the plaster of chimney breast and internal walls between neighbour's house for fire protection. Even in the 80s to purchase ironing board with asbestos to stand the iron on. Artex and Poly tex wall textured finish solid in the 1970s,and 1980s that contains asbestos and the number of homes that have hidden asbestos in their ceilings and plaster on their walls and they are not aware of the fact and drilling holes in the walls and ceilings are putting them at risk. So many times manufacturing materials that have been created by the world that have been found to be dangerous for people and the environment. But profit margins are more important than the people and the truth of God and the evil effects on the people from the world economy and its effects on making money at the cost of human life and resources.

In the 1980's the thing to get into was computers.

10:28 100% correct! You can't be a nice millionaire.

When the Lego factory went,that was it...

40 years later & they now have the joys of Morrison’s supermarkets, Greegs, Macdonnalds, Burger King, pound shops, & single mums pushing 3 kids around.

Just around the corner, heroin. Some places never recovered 40 years later.

It`d be nice to see how they all did a few years on!

the yellow page's phone book

Well, what you do (Depending on your age) is look for alternative employment, and in the meantime use the redundancy pay to support you financially.

Working in shops British industrial gone 😅

Wonder what happened, how they all are, etc here in 2022

Same in 2020

With the new lockdowns throughout Europe, a lot of people will get unemployed, hope they have enough money for tough times and are skilled to get new job when this armageddon is over.

Where are they today?

The root of the problem (I lived through it in the 1970's) is ... toxic industrial relations. In theory, trade unions are a god thing, but in practice they can result in the total loss of the jobs of the people they are supposed to be representing. I have seen this take place in front of my eyes.

Marcher Sound went on to great things

1:45 did they have drones back in the day filming this??

5:08 swastika in a shot for a whole interview :-D

Is it really necessary to have swastika in the background of this interview at 4:58

I didn't know the GLC issued mortgages.

5:47 - Nazi symbol in the background. Can you spot the swastika?

5:01 Swastika graffiti was typical of that time, along with NF.

A lot more got finished off with next to nothing many went back to jobs with half the pay they used to earn.

No bubble wrap back then? I can't remember, I was there though. If I was transported back there to that time I know I wouldn't have made fucking gnomes - plenty of up an coming options like mobile phones or something. Hindsight is pretty nice isn't it!

now they just text you when you loose your job

Were whitbreads 🍺

Frank sorry to sound nasty but you where the manager of a failing business department which you managed, why did you think you could change things around. OMG your home as well.

Ah, classic Britain with a swastika at 00:21.

Choc ice 15p

2024 and here is AI

My god parts of Britain look poor and backward in the 1980s.

Altogether now....for then and today(2023)....🎶"Laaaaaand of Hoooope and Glorrryyyy....?."🎶🤔🇬🇧🤯🤕👌😎👍🤙✌️

Then Maggie and Co. reduced the redundancy payouts. Ho hum.

LOL

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70s and 80s were shite times, much easier nowadays

The guy with the beard buys two loss making businesses and goes bankrupt. Brains of Britain hevaint. WTF.😂

70s and 80s were shite times, much easier nowadays