Studies of mass layoffs in mining
From 1990 to 1998, the Institute for Northern Ontario Research and Development, located at Laurentian University, was the centre of a major series of research studies on the uranium mine closures and mass layoffs that occurred at Elliot Lake from 1990 and 1996. Called the Elliot Lake Tracking and Adjustment Study (ELTAS), the interdisciplinary project involved several researchers Laurentian and extensive longitudinal (or tracking) surveys, the then largest ever conducted in Canada, of the socio-economic impacts of mass layoffs in the mining industry. Dr. Leadbeater was a senior researcher in the project with particular interests in worker and community impacts of mass layoffs, training policy, and community economic development.
Here is some work coming from the ELTAS project:
Leadbeater, David. 1999. “Increased Transfer Dependency in the Elliot Lake and North
Shore Communities.” In Anne-Marie Mawhiney and Jane Pitblado (eds.), Boom Town Blues: Collapse and Revival in a Single-Industry Community. Toronto: Dundurn Press. 32 pages.
Boom Town Blues: Collapse and Revival in a Single-Industry Community
Leadbeater, David. 1998. “Single-Industry Resource Communities and the New Crisis of
Economic Development: Lessons of Elliot Lake.” Final Report of the Community
Response Sub-Project. Laurentian University: Elliot Lake Tracking and Adjustment
Study. 62 pages.
Leadbeater, David. 1998. “The Development of Elliot Lake, ‘Uranium Capital of the
World’: A Background to the Layoffs of 1990-1996.” 50 pages.
The Development of Elliot Lake
Leadbeater, David and Peter Suschnigg. 1997. “Training as the Principal Focus of Adjustment Policy: A Critical View from Northern Ontario,” Canadian Public Policy 23 (1), March: 1-22.