Transport contraction
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THE TRANSPORT industry has contracted its workforce, but not as dramatically as manufacturing, agriculture or energy industries.
This claim in made in a newly released comparison between the 1971 and 1981 Census figures, shows that in 1981 over 10 per cent of the workforce in the transport sector was unemployed. This compares with figures of around two per cent for health, three per cent for engineering and around 17 per cent for construction and mining.
Transport has a collective workforce of 1.5m , which makes up seven per cent of Great Britain's total. Between 1971 and 1981 the numbers employed decreased by around three per cent.
The 1981 Census figures also show that women make up only six per cent of the transport operating, materials, moving and storing workforce.