The social repercussions of industrial reconversion have been discussed in the plots of some cinematographic works of the genre called social cinema.

In the United Kingdom, British social realism, represented among other directors by Ken Loach (Raining Stones), coincides with the denunciation from a leftist point of view of the imposition of a market society and the erosion of the unions by liberal policies that in the long run turned out to be effective implemented by Margaret Thatcher. Other directors have treated the theme of industrial reconversion specifically as a framework for more or less comic or dramatic plots in some films of much success:.

In Spain:

Studies or references to industrial reconversion in Spain:.

Application of the concept in Costa Rica:

In 1974, Spain was the tenth world industrial power, but the sector's weaknesses were more than evident due to lack of resources. The trade balance was in deficit[1].

In the case of Spain, the process of industrial reconversion would mean the dismantling of the large part of the heavy industry that had been built since the autarchy of the first years of Franco's regime around the INI, concentrated in certain areas with a "more sensitive and less diversified" industrial fabric), such as Asturias, which has been described as industrial monoculture") (HUNOSA, ENSIDESA), the Bilbao estuary (Altos Hornos de Vizcaya, AHV), Sagunto (Altos Hornos del Mediterráneo, AHM), Ferrol (public shipyards, both military and civil), Cartagena "Cartagena (Spain)") (shipyards and chemical industry), the Bay of Cádiz (shipyards) or Vigo (shipyards and heavy industry) The coincidence in time with the death of Franco and the beginning of the Spanish Transition caused unpopular policies to be postponed due to fear of the corresponding social conflict. The OPEC oil boycott at the beginning of the crisis did not affect Spain, as it was a country that did not recognize Israel.

Reconversion policies, therefore, were taken starting in the 1980s. These measures were taken in Spain in 1981 and entailed significant cuts in the productive capacity of companies in various sectors (shipping, steel, etc.), for which an attempt was made – without success – to channel production towards other new industrial branches with better expectations.

The PSOE governments of Felipe González carried out a conflictive industrial reconversion with the "Law of Industrial Reconversion and Reindustrializations" approved in 1983. The commonly called "reconversion" lasted until the nineties and entailed an expense for the State of 1.5 billion pesetas. It left in its wake the destruction of 83,000 jobs, which mainly affected towns such as Sagunto, Vigo, Ferrol, Gijón, Sestao, Asúa, Reinosa, Getafe and Puerto Real. With the idea of ​​ending an obsolete industry, a good part of the country's industrial fabric was directly destroyed without generating a new industry of proportional dimensions or an alternative economic activity with solid bases. This had an impact on the inability of the Spanish economy to face the crisis of 92-93 and was an incentive for economic activity to be oriented to a greater extent towards financial, real estate and speculative practices.[2]​.

Incorporation into the European Economic Community (1986) forced a culminating process of industrial dismantling called industrial reconversion during the mandate of Felipe González from 1986.[3]​.

In addition, the productive capacity of sectors such as dairy, grapevines, olives, among others, was limited.

The social repercussions of industrial reconversion have been discussed in the plots of some cinematographic works of the genre called social cinema.

In the United Kingdom, British social realism, represented among other directors by Ken Loach (Raining Stones), coincides with the denunciation from a leftist point of view of the imposition of a market society and the erosion of the unions by liberal policies that in the long run turned out to be effective implemented by Margaret Thatcher. Other directors have treated the theme of industrial reconversion specifically as a framework for more or less comic or dramatic plots in some films of much success:.

In Spain:

Studies or references to industrial reconversion in Spain:.

Application of the concept in Costa Rica: