Sunley / Martin / Nativel Putting Workfare in Place

Local Labour Markets and the New Deal
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-5225-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: RGS-IBG Book Series

This book is the first comprehensive and authoritative analysis ofthe New Deal and examines how far the programme has succeeded inresponding to the diversity of conditions in local labour marketsacross the UK.

* Argues that profound differences in local labour marketconditions have exerted a telling influence on the New Deal'sachievements

* Includes extensive new research data on the current conditionsof local labour markets in the UK and local impacts of the NewDeal

* Illustrated by a large series of original maps andfigures.

* Based on numerous interviews with local and regional policyactors.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sunley, Peter

Martin, Ron

Nativel, Corinne

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editors' Preface.
Preface.
List of Tables.
List of Figures.
1 Locating the New Deal.
2 The Geographies of Worklessness.
3 Local Disparities in the Performance of Welfare-to-Work.
4 Welfare-to-Work in Local Context.
5 A Geography of Mismatch? Employers, Jobs and Training.
6 Localising Welfare-to-Work?
7 Conclusions.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Sunley is Professor of Human Geography at theUniversity of Southampton. He has authored around 50 articles oneconomic and labour geography and on local and regional economicdevelopment.
Ron Martin is Professor of Economic Geography at theUniversity of Cambridge, Professorial Fellow of StCatharine's College, Cambridge, and Fellow of theCambridge-MIT Institute. He has published more than 20 booksincluding Geographies of Labour Market Inequality (2003)andmore than 150 articles on regional economic growth, the geographyof finance, labour geography, and the geographies of statepolicy.
Corinne Nativel is Research Fellow in the Department ofGeography and Geomatics at the University of Glasgow. Her workcentres on welfare restructuring, labour market and social policywith a special focus on youth and gender. She has published severalbooks and articles including Economic Transition, Unemploymentand Active Labour Market Policy (2004).