Putting Workfare in Place Local Labour Markets and the New Deal

by Sunley, Peter; Martin, Ron; Nativel, Corinne

• ISBN13: 9780470795873
• ISBN10: 0470795875
• Edition: 1st
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-05-13
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Peter Sunley is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Southampton. He has authored around 50 articles on economic and labour geography and on local and regional economic development.

Ron Martin is Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Cambridge, Professorial Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and Fellow of the Cambridge-MIT Institute. He has published more than 20 books including Geographies of Labour Market Inequality (2003)and more than 150 articles on regional economic growth, the geography of finance, labour geography, and the geographies of state policy.

Corinne Nativel is Research Fellow in the Department of Geography and Geomatics at the University of Glasgow. Her work centres on welfare restructuring, labour market and social policy with a special focus on youth and gender. She has published several books and articles including Economic Transition, Unemployment and Active Labour Market Policy (2004).

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Preface vi

Preface vii

List of Tables ix

List of Figures xi

1 Locating the New Deal 1

2 The Geographies of Worklessness 26

3 Local Disparities in the Performance of Welfare-to-Work 59

4 Welfare-to-Work in Local Context 99

5 A Geography of Mismatch? Employers, Jobs and Training 127

6 Localising Welfare-to-Work? 155

7 Conclusions 183

Notes 208

Bibliography 212

Index 231