Structural Adjustment in the Federal Republic of Germany Book

	Preface
1	Social and economic characteristics	1
2	Structural change in manufacturing: Direction, causes, results	9
	Changes in pattern of output and employment	9
	Grounds for changes in employment	13
	Changes in patterns of demand	20
	Productivity, investment, innovation	29
3	Attitudes of government, employers and unions to structural adjustment	49
	Government view of adjustment to structural change	49
	General principles of structural policy	50
	Government approach to particular structural problems	51
	The trade unions and adjustment to structural change	54
	The business community and structural change	62
	The banking system	62
	Business associations	65
	Adjustment by concerted action	69
4	Principles on trial: Adjustment policies in the 1970s	79
	Attitudes towards individual enterprises: The Volkswagen case	79
	Structural adjustment policies	81
	Overall volume of subsidies	81
	Subsidies to industry	84
5	Adjustment in electronics and electrical appliances and in textiles and clothing	97
	Consumer electronics and electrical appliances	99
	White goods	100
	Brown goods	102
	Textiles and clothing	105
6	Conclusions	115
	Bibliography	123
	Appendix: Tables	133