Union Retreat and the Regions: The Shrinking Landscape of Organised Labour (Regions and Cities)

Since the beginning of the 1980s, British trade unions have experienced a dramatic retreat, marked by rapidly falling membership and declining industrial power. The authors examine the regional dimensions of this retreat of organised labour, paying particular attention to: The resilience of the unions' historical heartland areas. The impact of economic restructuring on local union traditions. The shrinking landscape of industrial militancy. The geographical decentralization of the new industrial relations. The link between these factors and the more general debate on regional development and regional labour markets. An important synthesis of economic geography and industrial relations work, this book marks a major contribution towards the newly emerging field of labour geography

Wills, Jane

Martin, Ron

Sunley, Peter

Reference

Routledge

This book aims to understand the predicaments of ‘left behind places’ and the scale of the policy challenge of ‘levelling up’ their economic prosperity. Drawing out lessons of wider international significance, it examines how places (cities, towns and localities) have grown apart over recent decades amidst deindustrialisation, post-industrial transition and the disruptive shocks of the global financial crisis and COVID-19 pandemic. Using the UK case to illustrate its arguments, the analysis identifies the different types of ‘left behind places’ and their distinctive economic experiences. The key features of urban and regional institutions and policies are reviewed to understand more about why, despite some successes, geographical inequalities remain an entrenched feature of the UK, blighting the life chances and quality of life of its citizens, and national economic progress as a whole. The weaknesses of past policies are highlighted, and the case is made for a new, mission-oriented policy model, because only a radical shift in economic thinking, governance and management is likely to achieve the ‘levelling up’ that is now a prominent refrain in the political lexicon.

Levelling Up Left Behind Places: The Scale and Nature of the Economic and Policy Challenge (Regional Studies Policy Impact Books)

Business & Money

Tyler, Peter

Pike, Andy

Gardiner, Ben

Economics

Since the beginning of the 1980s, British trade unions have experienced a dramatic retreat, marked by rapidly falling membership and declining industrial power. The authors examine the regional dimensions of this retreat of organised labour, paying particular attention to: The resilience of the unions' historical heartland areas. The impact of economic restructuring on local union traditions. The shrinking landscape of industrial militancy. The geographical decentralization of the new industrial relations. The link between these factors and the more general debate on regional development and regional labour markets. An important synthesis of economic geography and industrial relations work, this book marks a major contribution towards the newly emerging field of labour geography

This book is the first comprehensive and authoritative analysis of the New Deal and examines how far the programme has succeeded in responding to the diversity of conditions in local labour markets across the UK.   Argues that profound differences in local labour market conditions have exerted a telling influence on the New Deal’s achievements  Includes extensive new research data on the current conditions of local labour markets in the UK and local impacts of the New Deal  Illustrated by a large series of original maps and figures.  Based on numerous interviews with local and regional policy actors.

Putting Workfare in Place: Local Labour Markets and the New Deal

Nativel, Corinne

Wiley/Blackwell

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’sachievementsIncludes extensive new research data on the current conditionsof local labour markets in the UK and local impacts of the NewDealIllustrated by a large series of original maps andfigures.Based on numerous interviews with local and regional policyactors.

Putting Workfare in Place: Local Labour Markets and the New Deal (RGS-IBG Book Series)

Over the last 15 years, the substantial restructuring of western economies has confronted trade unions with the most intense changes and challenges they have had to face for more than half a century: in many countries union membership has fallen sharply and the power of the trade unions has been considerably weakened. Drawing on the data from a large scale ESRC-funded research project, the authors make a comprehensive analysis of the regional and local dimensions of trade union decline and industrial relations changes of the past 15 years, relating their findings to wider conceptual and empirical issues. Linking regional structure, trends in trade unionism and industrial relations to the more general debate on regional development and regional labour markets, this book is an important synthesis of economic geography and labour relations work.

Union Retreat & the Regions: The Shrinking Landscape of Organised Labour (Regional Policy and Development Series, 8)

Martin, Ron L.

Regional Studies Association (London, England)

Jessica Kingsley Pub

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Union Retreat and the Regions: The Shrinking Landscape of Organised Labour (Regions and Cities)

Levelling Up Left Behind Places: The Scale and Nature of the Economic and Policy Challenge (Regional Studies Policy Impact Books)

Union Retreat and the Regions: The Shrinking Landscape of Organised Labour (Regions and Cities)

Putting Workfare in Place: Local Labour Markets and the New Deal

Putting Workfare in Place: Local Labour Markets and the New Deal (RGS-IBG Book Series)

Union Retreat & the Regions: The Shrinking Landscape of Organised Labour (Regional Policy and Development Series, 8)