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

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John Wiley & Sons, Jul 20, 2011 - Science - 256 pages

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.
 

Selected pages

Contents

Series Editors Preface
1993
List of Tables
1999
Chapter Two The Geographies of Worklessness
1992
Chapter Three Local Disparities in the Performance
Chapter Four WelfaretoWork in Local Context
Chapter Five A Geography of Mismatch? Employers Jobs
Chapter Six Localising WelfaretoWork?
Chapter Seven Conclusions
Bibliography
Index
Copyright

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Putting Workfare in Place: Local Labour Markets and the New Deal
Peter Sunley,Ron Martin,Corinne Nativel
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Peter Sunley,Ron Martin,Corinne Nativel
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Peter Sunley,Ron Martin,Corinne Nativel
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Common terms and phrases

active labour market agencies ALMP areas argued benefits Birmingham Cambridge cent Chapter claimant clients contract Deal 25 Deal for Young Deal programmes decentralisation depressed labour markets district economic Edinburgh Education and Employment effects employability employers Employment Service Employment Zones Evaluation Figure flexibility funding Gateway geography Government high unemployment HM Treasury hysteresis ILMs inactivity increase individuals innovation interviews Job Centre job opportunities job search jobless labour demand labour force labour market conditions labour market policy leavers local labour markets Lone Parents long-term unemployed long-term unemployment manager ND programmes NDPAs NDYP neoliberal North Tyneside OECD official organisations outcomes participants partnerships Peck personal advisers policy paradigms problems recruitment regional responsibility skills Social Exclusion strategies subsidised job supply-side targets Tavistock Institute Turok unemployment rates unitary authority Units of Delivery unsubsidised UoDs vacancies variations Welfare Reform welfare-to-work work-first workfare recycling worklessness youth unemployment

About the author (2011)

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).

Bibliographic information

TitlePutting Workfare in Place: Local Labour Markets and the New Deal
RGS-IBG Book Series
AuthorsPeter Sunley, Ron Martin, Corinne Nativel
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons, 2011
ISBN1444399764, 9781444399769
Length256 pages
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