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| Preface |
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| Acknowledgements |
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| Part 1 Setting the scene |
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Continuity and change in analysing geographies of economies |
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3 | (26) |
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3 | (1) |
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Changing approaches to economic geography |
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Changing substantive foci of interest in economic geography |
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22 | (7) |
| Part 2 Re-thinking regional change |
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30 | (3) |
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Capital accumulation and regional problems: a study of northeast England, 1945 to 1980 |
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33 | (29) |
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33 | (2) |
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Recovery and recession: 1951 to 1962 |
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35 | (10) |
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Modernization: 1963 to 1970 |
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45 | (8) |
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Permanent depression: the 1970s onwards? |
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53 | (7) |
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Conclusions: capital, the state and regional crises |
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60 | (2) |
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Re-structuring region and state: the case of northeast England |
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62 | (30) |
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62 | (3) |
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Regional changes in the national and global contexts |
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65 | (2) |
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Rolling back the state, unravelling the `old' regional economy |
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67 | (3) |
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Creating a `new' economy, creating new forms of state involvement |
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70 | (18) |
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Conclusions: regional regeneration and polarization? |
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88 | (4) |
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The learning economy, the learning firm and the learning region: a sympathetic critique of the limits to learning |
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92 | (17) |
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92 | (1) |
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The learning economy: learning firms and learning regions |
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93 | (7) |
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Old wine in new bottles: or another trip around the mulberry bush? |
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100 | (5) |
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Conclusions and reflections on the limits to learning: learning by whom, for what purpose? |
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105 | (4) |
| Part 3 Geographies of changing forms of production and work |
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109 | (68) |
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110 | (4) |
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Labour market changes and new forms of work in old industrial regions: may be flexibility for some but not flexible accumulation |
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114 | (29) |
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114 | (1) |
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Forms of labour market and of labour process change in the old industrial regions |
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115 | (15) |
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From Fordism to flexible accumulation in the old industrial regions? |
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130 | (7) |
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Some concluding comments: the strategies of labour and the trades unions, and the future for learning, living and working in the old industrial regions |
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137 | (6) |
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New production concepts, new production geographies? Reflections on changes in the automobile industry |
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143 | (19) |
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143 | (4) |
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Competition and cooperation between assembly companies |
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147 | (2) |
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Cooperation between component suppliers and assembly companies |
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149 | (2) |
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Competition and cooperation between component companies |
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151 | (1) |
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152 | (3) |
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Searching for new regulatory regimes |
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155 | (1) |
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Local and regional economic development implications: just-in-time and in one place? |
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156 | (2) |
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158 | (4) |
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The end of mass production and of the mass collective worker? Experimenting with production and employment |
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162 | (15) |
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162 | (2) |
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Experimenting with new models of high volume production |
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164 | (2) |
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Work, workers and HVP and its geographies |
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166 | (4) |
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So is this the end of the mass collective worker? |
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170 | (3) |
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Conclusions and reflections |
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173 | (4) |
| Part 4 Territorial politics and policies |
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177 | (90) |
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178 | (4) |
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Accumulation, spatial policies, and the production of regional labour reserves: a study of Washington New Town |
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182 | (19) |
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Capital accumulation, regional labour reserves, and state policies: some key concepts |
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182 | (1) |
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Legitimating the development of labour reserves in Washington New Town: intra-regional uneven development as the route to social progress |
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183 | (1) |
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Reducing the cost of variable capital and the reconstruction of a labour reserve in and around Washington New Town, 1964-1978 |
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184 | (11) |
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State expenditure, policy intentions and outcomes |
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195 | (4) |
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199 | (2) |
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Region, class, and the politics of steel closures in the European Community |
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201 | (26) |
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201 | (6) |
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Region, class, and the politics of steel closures: Lorraine and the Nord |
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207 | (9) |
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Region, class, and the politics of steel closures: northeast England |
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216 | (6) |
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222 | (5) |
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Institutional change, cultural transformation and economic regeneration: myths and realities from Europe's old industrial areas |
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227 | (19) |
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227 | (2) |
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Productionist solutions, I: small and medium-sized manufacturing firms and the enterprise culture |
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229 | (4) |
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Productionist solutions, II: big firms and the branch plant economy |
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233 | (2) |
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Consumptionist solutions, I: from working-class production spaces to tourism based on the heritage of working-class production |
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235 | (2) |
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Consumptionist solutions, II: from working-class production spaces to middle-class residential and consumption spaces |
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237 | (2) |
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The welfare state solution: from industrial workers to clients of the welfare state |
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239 | (1) |
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240 | (6) |
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Making music work? Alternative regeneration strategies in a deindustrialized locality: the case of Derwentside |
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246 | (21) |
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246 | (2) |
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From nineteenth century work camp to state-managed locality |
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248 | (2) |
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Localized crisis: the closure of Consett steelworks and the collapse of the old order |
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250 | (2) |
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Constructing an alternative development trajectory, I: the reindustrialization strategy |
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252 | (2) |
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Constructing an alternative development trajectory, II: Making Music Work and cooperative development |
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254 | (9) |
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263 | (4) |
| Part 5 Production, environment and politics |
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267 | (48) |
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268 | (4) |
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The environmental impacts of industrial production |
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272 | (13) |
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Coal mining, employment and the environment: towards a new politics of production in Britain? |
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272 | (3) |
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Opencast coal mining and its environmental and human impacts: implications for public policy in Britain |
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275 | (3) |
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Challenges to modernization policies: from unemployment to environmental concern on Teesside |
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278 | (7) |
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Towards sustainable industrial production: but in what sense sustainable? |
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285 | (14) |
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285 | (2) |
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What is sustainable from the point of view of capital? |
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287 | (3) |
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The social sustainability of the level and distribution of employment |
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290 | (3) |
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The ecological sustainability of the level and composition of output |
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293 | (4) |
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297 | (2) |
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In search of employment creation via environmental valorization: exploring a possible eco-Keynesian future for Europe |
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299 | (16) |
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299 | (3) |
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The current impasse: clues about possible futures from the paradoxes of high unemployment and the limits to contemporary policy approaches |
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302 | (3) |
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Searching for an eco-Keynesian alternative: in pursuit of environmental valorization and a new distribution of work and employment |
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305 | (4) |
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What would be an appropriate territorial level of state involvement in an eco-Keynesian mode of regulation in Europe? |
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309 | (3) |
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Conclusions and implications |
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312 | (3) |
| References |
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315 | (25) |
| Index |
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