And, as ownership of major industrial facilities has shifted overseas, those making the decisions have become further removed from the local context – and from the communities that bear the consequences. For them, especially, the prospect of losing local hospital services during the health system restructuring of the 1990s and 2000s reignited a deep sense of town ownership – a town many long-time residents helped build from the ground up. Today, however, the impact of more than 30 years of globalisation and creation of complex international value chains has separated workers from the people and institutions that determine their jobs and working conditions – and the future of the towns they helped shape.
Author: Fiona Hurd, Associate Professor, Marketing & International Business, Auckland University of Technology, Suzette Dyer, Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management, University of Waikato
Published at: 2025-12-09 23:31:26
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