economic realignment Flashcards
1
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Long-term economic trends were already affecting ?
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Britain’s old industries
2
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old labour intensive industries facing challenges from?
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foreign competition and from technological innovation
3
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Britain’s economy was moving away from being based on?
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manufacturing + heavy industry
4
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economy changed from manufacturing + heavy industry to becoming based on?
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services
Thatcher gov embraced this shift
5
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who faced painful adjustments ?
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those in areas that had known nothing else but coal mines, shipyards and steelworks
6
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what was crumbling?
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foundations of wc + communities they lived in
7
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economic realignment acted in
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sharpening the north-south divide
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