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List of Plates

List of Tables

Preface

Acknowledgements

Part 1 Setting the scene

Continuity and change in analysing geographies of economies

Introductory remarks

Changing approaches to economic geography

Changing substantive foci of interest in economic geography

Part 2 Re-thinking regional change

Introduction

Capital accumulation and regional problems: a study of northeast England, 1945 to 1980

Introduction

Recovery and recession: 1951 to 1962

Modernization: 1963 to 1970

Permanent depression: the 1970s onwards?

Conclusions: capital, the state and regional crises

Re-structuring region and state: the case of northeast England

Introduction

Regional changes in the national and global contexts

Rolling back the state, unravelling the `old' regional economy

Creating a `new' economy, creating new forms of state involvement

Conclusions: regional regeneration and polarization?

The learning economy, the learning firm and the learning region: a sympathetic critique of the limits to learning

Introduction

The learning economy: learning firms and learning regions

Old wine in new bottles: or another trip around the mulberry bush?

Conclusions and reflections on the limits to learning: learning by whom, for what purpose?

Part 3 Geographies of changing forms of production and work

Introduction

Labour market changes and new forms of work in old industrial regions: may be flexibility for some but not flexible accumulation

Introduction

Forms of labour market and of labour process change in the old industrial regions

From Fordism to flexible accumulation in the old industrial regions?

Some concluding comments: the strategies of labour and the trades unions, and the future for learning, living and working in the old industrial regions

New production concepts, new production geographies? Reflections on changes in the automobile industry

Introduction

Competition and cooperation between assembly companies

Cooperation between component suppliers and assembly companies

Competition and cooperation between component companies

Capital-labour relations

Searching for new regulatory regimes

Local and regional economic development implications: just-in-time and in one place?

Conclusions

The end of mass production and of the mass collective worker? Experimenting with production and employment

Introduction

Experimenting with new models of high volume production

Work, workers and HVP and its geographies

So is this the end of the mass collective worker?

Conclusions and reflections

Part 4 Territorial politics and policies

Introduction

Accumulation, spatial policies, and the production of regional labour reserves: a study of Washington New Town

Introduction

Capital accumulation, regional labour reserves, and state policies: some key concepts

Legitimating the development of labour reserves in Washington New Town: intra-regional uneven development as the route to social progress

Reducing the cost of variable capital and the reconstruction of a labour reserve in and around Washington New Town, 1964-1978

State expenditure, policy intentions and outcomes

Summary and conclusions

Region, class, and the politics of steel closures in the European Community

Introduction

Region, class, and the politics of steel closures: Lorraine and the Nord

Region, class, and the politics of steel closures: northeast England

Concluding comments

Institutional change, cultural transformation and economic regeneration: myths and realities from Europe's old industrial areas

Introduction

Productionist solutions, I: small and medium-sized manufacturing firms and the enterprise culture

Productionist solutions, II: big firms and the branch plant economy

Consumptionist solutions, I: from working-class production spaces to tourism based on the heritage of working-class production

Consumptionist solutions, II: from working-class production spaces to middle-class residential and consumption spaces

The welfare state solution: from industrial workers to clients of the welfare state

Conclusions

Making music work? Alternative regeneration strategies in a deindustrialized locality: the case of Derwentside

Introduction

From nineteenth century work camp to state-managed locality

Localized crisis: the closure of Consett steelworks and the collapse of the old order

Constructing an alternative development trajectory, I: the reindustrialization strategy

Constructing an alternative development trajectory, II: Making Music Work and cooperative development

Conclusions

Part 5 Production, environment and politics

Introduction

The environmental impacts of industrial production

Coal mining, employment and the environment: towards a new politics of production in Britain?

Opencast coal mining and its environmental and human impacts: implications for public policy in Britain

Challenges to modernization policies: from unemployment to environmental concern on Teesside

Towards sustainable industrial production: but in what sense sustainable?

Introduction

What is sustainable from the point of view of capital?

The social sustainability of the level and distribution of employment

The ecological sustainability of the level and composition of output

Conclusions

In search of employment creation via environmental valorization: exploring a possible eco-Keynesian future for Europe

Introduction

The current impasse: clues about possible futures from the paradoxes of high unemployment and the limits to contemporary policy approaches

Searching for an eco-Keynesian alternative: in pursuit of environmental valorization and a new distribution of work and employment

What would be an appropriate territorial level of state involvement in an eco-Keynesian mode of regulation in Europe?

Conclusions and implications

References

Index