Supply Chain pressures and migrant workers: Deteriorating job quality in the United Kingdom food-processing industry
The food-processing industry is one of the largest manufacturing sectors in the United Kingdom, employing approximately 413,000 workers, representing just under 13 percent of manufacturing employment (ABI 2006). Despite its size and importance, it is in slow decline as consumer expenditure on food s...
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| description | The food-processing industry is one of the largest manufacturing sectors in the United Kingdom, employing approximately 413,000 workers, representing just under 13 percent of manufacturing employment (ABI 2006). Despite its size and importance, it is in slow decline as consumer expenditure on food stagnates, prices are squeezed, and imports grow. Large supermarket chains increasingly dominate the sale of food products and exert considerable power over large parts of the processing sector. The changing patterns of consumer demand, intensified pressure from retailers, an oversupply in some sectors, and increased levels of regulation, particularly in relation to food hygiene, have led some commentators to describe the environment as "fiercely competitive" (see Dench et al. 2000; IDS 2004; Wilson and Hogarth 2003). |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:3da4d5de-b1df-455d-9cba-4e0dc36a4c352022-03-26T14:20:43ZSupply Chain pressures and migrant workers: Deteriorating job quality in the United Kingdom food-processing industryBook sectionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_3248uuid:3da4d5de-b1df-455d-9cba-4e0dc36a4c35Symplectic Elements at OxfordRussell Sage Foundation2008James, SLloyd, CThe food-processing industry is one of the largest manufacturing sectors in the United Kingdom, employing approximately 413,000 workers, representing just under 13 percent of manufacturing employment (ABI 2006). Despite its size and importance, it is in slow decline as consumer expenditure on food stagnates, prices are squeezed, and imports grow. Large supermarket chains increasingly dominate the sale of food products and exert considerable power over large parts of the processing sector. The changing patterns of consumer demand, intensified pressure from retailers, an oversupply in some sectors, and increased levels of regulation, particularly in relation to food hygiene, have led some commentators to describe the environment as "fiercely competitive" (see Dench et al. 2000; IDS 2004; Wilson and Hogarth 2003). |
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| title | Supply Chain pressures and migrant workers: Deteriorating job quality in the United Kingdom food-processing industry |
| title_full | Supply Chain pressures and migrant workers: Deteriorating job quality in the United Kingdom food-processing industry |
| title_fullStr | Supply Chain pressures and migrant workers: Deteriorating job quality in the United Kingdom food-processing industry |
| title_full_unstemmed | Supply Chain pressures and migrant workers: Deteriorating job quality in the United Kingdom food-processing industry |
| title_short | Supply Chain pressures and migrant workers: Deteriorating job quality in the United Kingdom food-processing industry |
| title_sort | supply chain pressures and migrant workers deteriorating job quality in the united kingdom food processing industry |
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