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