Peter Sunley & Ron Martin 
Putting Workfare in Place [PDF ebook] 
Local Labour Markets and the New Deal

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.

Spis treści

Series Editors’ Preface.

Preface.

List of Tables.

List of Figures.

1 Locating the New Deal.

2 The Geographies of Worklessness.

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

4 Welfare-to-Work in Local Context.

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

6 Localising Welfare-to-Work?

7 Conclusions.

Notes.

Bibliography.

Index.

O autorze

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).