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The economic geography of the UK
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- Creator
- edited by Neil M. Coe & Andrew Jones
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- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- London ; Los Angeles : Sage Publications, 2010
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 264 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 1849200890, 144626937X, 9781849200905, 1446245586, 1280303190, 9781446269374, 9781849200899, 1446247716, 1849200904, 9786613554932
- OCLC
- ocn640084616, ocn787852229, ocn764572792
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Part I: Setting the Scene: Uneven Economic Geographies. Introduction: the shifting geographies of the UK economy? / Neil M. Coe and Andrew Jones.-- Persistent North/South divides / Danny Dorling.-- Uneven regional growth: the geographies of boom and bust under New Labour / Ron Martin
- Part II: Landscapes of Power, Inequality and Finance. The City and finance: changing landscapes of power / John Allen.-- Banking on financial services / Shaun French, Karen Lai and Andrew Leyshon.-- The geography of UK government finance: tax, spend and what lies between / Steve Musson.-- State and economy: governing uneven development in the UK / Andy Pike and John Tomaney.-- Housing and the UK economy / Chris Hamnett.-- The geographical pension gap: understanding patterns of inequality in UK occupational pensions / Kendra Strauss and Gordon Clark
- Part III: Landscapes of Production and Circulation. The changing geographies of manufacturing and work: Made in the UK? / Ray Hudson.-- Business services: driving the knowledge-based economy in the UK? / James Faulconbridge.-- Agricultural restructuring and changing food networks in the UK / Brian Ilbery and Damian Maye.-- The shifting geographies of UK retailing / Neil Wrigley.-- UK energy dilemmas: energy security and climate change / Michael Bradshaw
- Part IV: Landscapes of Social Change. Restructuring UK labour markets: work and employment in the twenty-first century / Kevin Ward.-- New migrant divisions of labour / Jane Wills, Cathy McIlwaine, Kavita Datta, Jon May, Joanna Herbert and Yara Evans.-- The UK economy and the transformation of East Central Europe / Alison Stenning.-- Coda: The UK Economy in an era of globalization / Neil M. Coe and Andrew Jones