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THE ECONOMIC LEGACY.

Mitchie, J. (ed), 1992: The Economic Legacy 1979-1992. Academic Press, £25 hardback, £12.95 paperback.

NEWCASTLE'S CHALLENGE.

Monitoring Team, Newcastle City Challenge 1992: Newcastle's West End: Monitoring the City Challenge Initiative. Baseline Report Newcastle: Dept of Town and Country Planning, Claremont Tower, The University, Newcastle on Tyne, NE1 7RU.     

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UNITARY AUTHORITIES.

Coopers & Lybrand Deloitte, 1992: Partnership in Prosperity: local government's role in economic development. Association of County Councils: The review of local government — Paper No 6 (February).

THE NISSAN ENIGMA.

Garrahan, P. and Stewart, P. 1992: The Nissan Enigma: Flexibility at Work in a Local Economy. London: Mansell, £35.00 cloth, £12.99 paper.

THE INTELLIGENT REGION.

Cooke, P. and Morgan, K. 1991: The Intelligent Region: Industrial and Institutional Innovation in Emilia-Romagna. Cardiff: Regional Industrial Research, Report 7, PO Box 906, Cardiff CF1 3YN.

STRENGTHENING BRITAIN'S TECHNOLOGICAL PERFORMANCE.

Brunskill, 1.1992: Making It: A Federal approach to industrial policy. London: Institute for Public Policy Research, £10.00 paper.

INVISIBLE MINORITIES.

Wrench, J., Brar, H. and Martin, P. 1991: Invisible Minorities: The employment experiences and needs of black and ethnic communities in Harlow. University of Warwick: Centre for research in Ethnic Relations. Available from Harlow District Council.

RURAL RESTRUCTURING.

Gilg, A.W. (ed), 1992: Restructuring the Countryside: Environmental Policy and Practice, Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, £32.50 cloth.     

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TELECOMMUNICATIONS.

Cox, M., Spires, R. and Wylson, D. 1994: Electronic Highways: Advances in Business and Community Telecoms and the Implications for the South East A report prepared by PA Cambridge Economic Consultants on behalf of SEEDS,

£25.00 + £3.50 pp.

THE FAMILY-FRIENDLY WORKPLACE.

Hogg, C. and Harker, L. 1993: The Family-Friendly Employer Examples from Europe. Daycare Trust, 4 Wild Court, London WC2B 5AU, £13.95.     

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Book reviewed in this article: GREAT BRITAIN Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous (Chancery) Preserved in the Public Record Office. Vol. vn: 1399-1422. R. B. Pugh (Ed.). The Victoria History of the Counties of England. General Introduction. Elizabeth CRITTALL (Ed.). The Victoria History of the Counties of England. A History of Wiltshire. Nigel Harvey . A History of Farm Buildings in England and Wales. Roger Burt (Ed.). Industry and Society in the South-West. Michael Williams . The Draining of the Somerset Levels. Crispin Gill (Ed.). Dartmoor: A New Study. W. Branch Johnson . The Industrial Archaeology of Hertfordshire. George Watkins . The Textile Mill Engine. H. D. Gribbon . The History of Water Power in Ulster. Malcolm I. Thomis . The Luddites-Machine Breaking in Regency England. Bernard Semmel . The Rise of Free Trade Imperialism: Classical Political Economy and the Empire of Free Trade and Imperialism, ij50-1850. Judith Ryder and Harold Silver . Modern English Society: History and Structure, 1850-1970. P. W. Kingsford . Victorian Railwaymen. The Emergence and Growth of Railway Labour, 1830-1870. G. R. Hawke . Railways and Economic Growth in England and Wales, 1840-1870. Anthony Mason . The General Strike in the North East. D. H. Aldcroft . The Inter-War Economy: Britain, 1919-1939. Scientific Research in British Universities and Colleges, 1969-70. Vol. III: Social Sciences. S. Thernstrom and R. Sennet (Eds.). Nineteenth-Century Cities: Essays in the Mew Urban History. W. D. Borrie . The Growth and Control of World Population. Carlo M. Cipolla (Ed.). The Economic Decline of Empires. Thomas F. Glick . Irrigation and Society in Medieval Valencia. Philippe Dollinger . The German Hansa. Translated and edited by D. S. Ault and S. H. Steinberg. L. Genicot , M.-S. Boughat -Dupont , B. Delvaux . La Crise Agricole du Bas Moyen Age dans le Mamurois. Madeleine Ly -Tio -Fane . Mauritius and the Spice Trade. Vol. n: The Triumph of Jean Nicolas Cere and his Isle Bourbon Collaborators. J. R. Pole (Ed.). The Revolution in America, 1734-1788. Documents on the Internal Development of America in the Revolutionary Era. Geoffrey Blainey . The Rush That Never Ended: A History of Australian Mining. Geoffrey Blainey . The Peaks of Lyell. T. A. Goghlan . Labour and Industry in Australia. K. D. Buckley . The Amalgamated Engineers in Australia, 1852-1920. Allan G. B. Fisher and Humphrey J. Fisher . Slavery and Muslim Society in Africa. M. A. Cook (Ed.). Studies in the Economic History of the Middle East from the Rise of Islam to the Present Day. Jerome Ch'en and Nicholas Tarling (Eds.). Studies in the Social History of China and South-east Asia: Essays in Memory of Victor Purcell. David Herlihy . Medieval and Renaissance Pistoia. The Social History of an Italian Town, 1200-1430. Carlo Ilarione Petitti di Roreto . Opere scelte. A cura di Gian Mario Bravo. Carlo Cattaneo . Scritti scientifici e tecnici. Vol. 1: 1823-1848. With Introduction by Carlo G. Lacaita. A.A.V.V. Saggi di Demografia Storica. William M. Bowsky . The Finance of the Commune of Siena, 1287-1355. Giovanni Rebora . Un manuale di tintoria del Quattrocento. Glaudio Rotelli . L'economia agraria di Chieri attraverso i catasti dei secoli XIV e XVI. Giak Luigi Basini . Zecca e monete a Modem nei secoli XVI e XVII. Gian Luigi Basini . L'uomo e il Pane, Risorse, consumi e carenze alimentari della popolazione modenese nel Cinque e Seicento. Gianfranco Faina . IngegneriaportualegenovesedelSeicento. Manlio Calegari . La societa patria delle arti e manifatture. Iniziativa imprenditoriale e rinnovamento tecnologico nel riformismo genovese del Settecento. Giorgio Porisini , Condizioni monetarie e investimenti nel Bolognese-La Banco, delle quattro Legazioni. Glaudio Rotelli . I catasti imolesi dei secoli XIX e XX. S. Zaninelli . Storia di Monza e della Brianza. Vita economica e sociale. Bernardino Farolfi . Strumcnti epratiche agrarie in Toscana dall'eta Napoleonica aWUnita. G. Mori . L'industria delferro in Toscana dalla Restaurazione alia fine del Granducato (1851-1850). A. Fedrigoni . L'industria veneta della carta dalla seconda dominazione austriaca all'unita d'ltalia. Andrea Caizzi . Terra, vigneto e uomini nelle colline novaresi durante Vultimo secolo. Giuliano Friz . Le strade dello Stato Pontificio nel XIXsecolo. Pietro Negri . Leferrovie nello Stato Pontificio (1844-1870). Gian Mario Bravo . Torino operaia. Mondo del lavoro e idee sociali nelVeta di Carlo Alberto. Giorgio Doria . Investimenti e sviluppo economico a Genova alia vigilia della prima Guerra mondiale. Vol. i: Lepremesse (1815-1822). V. Castronovo . Economia e societa in Piemonte daWunita al 1914- (Milan: Banca Com-merciale Italiana.     

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Book reviewed in this article: GREAT BRITAIN The Victoria History of the Counties of England: A History of the County of Gloucester, Vol. XI, ed. by N. M. Herbert. T. H. Lloyd . The English Wool Trade in the Middle Ages Sandra Raban . The Estates of Thorney and Crowland: A Study in Medieval Monastic Land Tenure. The Plague Reconsidered: A New Look at its Origins and Effects in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century England. J. A. Chartres . Internal Trade in England, 1500-1joo (London: Macmillan for The Economic History Society. J. S. Kepler . The Exchange of Christendom: The International Entrepôt at Dover, 1622-51. Roger Anstey and P. E. H. Hair (Eds.). Liverpool, the African Slave Trade, and Abolition. Thomas Walter LAQUEUR. Religion and Respectability: Sunday Schools and Working-class Culture, 1780-1850. Travis L. Crosby . English Farmers and the Politics of Protection, 1815-52. G. Bush . Bristol audits Municipal Government, 1820-51. Oliver Mac Donagh . Early Victorian Government, 1830-70. A. P. Donajgrodzki (Ed.). Social Control in Nineteenth-Century Britain. John Woodward and David Richards (Eds.). Health Care and Popular Medicine in Nineteenth-Century England. Gwyn Harries -Jenkins . The Army in Victorian Society. Rosanna Ledbetter . A History of the Malthusian League, i8jj-ig2j. Joyce M. Bellamy and John Saville (Eds.). Dictionary of Labour Biography, Vol. IV. Raphael Samuel (Ed.). Miners, Quarrymen and Saltworkers. John Stevenson . Social Conditions in Britain between the Wars. Eric W. Pasold . Ladybird, Ladybird: A Story of Private Enterprise. GENERAL R. A. Butlin (Ed.). The Development of the Irish Town. Frances V. Moulder . Japan, China, and the Modern World Economy: Toward a Reinterpre-tation of East Asian Development, ca. 1600 to ca. 1918. Rory Miller , Clifford T. Smith , and John Fisher (Eds.). Social and Economic Change in Modern Peru. Alan Hodgart . The Economics of European Imperialism. Stephen A. Schuker . The End of French Predominance in Europe: The Financial Crisis of 1924. and the Adoption of the Dawes Plan. Robert Mabro and Samir Radwan . The Industrialization of Egypt, 1939-73’Policy and Performance. C. H. Lee . The Quantitative Approach to Economic History. ITALY D. Abulafia . The Two Italies: Economic Relations between the Norman Kingdom of Sicily and the Norman Communes. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, Vol. IX. Ruggiero Romano and Corrado Vivanti (Eds.). Storia d'Italia. 6 vols, in 10 parts. Aldo De Maddalena . Prezzi e mercedi a Milano dal 1701 al 1860 (Studi e ricerche di storia economica Italiana nell'età del Risorgimento, ed. Banca Commerciale Italiana), Vol. 1 (text); Vol. 11 (graphs). G. Assereto . La republica ligure: Lotte politichs e probleme finanziare, 1797-9. G. Are . Alle origine del l'Italia industriale (Storia-Saggi e ricerche. Ed. P. Villani. Vol. vi). G. Are , Economia e politico nel l'Italia liberate, 1890-1915. Eva Österberg . Kolonisation och kriser: Bebyggelse, skattetryck, odling och agrarstruktur i västra Värmland, ca. 1300-1600. Trygve Solhaug . De norske fiskeriers historie, z5/j-5o. 2 vols. Nils Unga . Socialdemokratin och arbetslöshetsfrågan, 1912-34: Framväxten av den‘nya’arbetslöshetspolitiken.     

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Book Reviews in this Article: J. B. Whitwell . Roman Lincolnshire. History of Lincolnshire. Vol. 11. (Lincoln: History of Lincolnshire Committee; Lincolnshire Local History Society R. Welldon Finn . Domesday Studies: The Norman Conquest and its Effects on the Economy, 1066–86 G. W. S. Barrow . Regesta Regum Scottorum. Vol. 11. The Acts of William I. Kenneth G. Ponting . The Woollen Industry of South-west England. Margery Kirkbride James (Ed. Elspeth M. Veale). Studies in the Medieval Wine Trade. John Hatcher . Rural Economy and Society in the Duchy of Cornwall, 1300–1500. Geoffrey C. Cowling . The History of Easingwold and the Forest of Galtres. (Huddersfield: R. B. Smith . Land and Politics in the England of Henry VIII W. J. Jones . The Elizabethan Court of Chancery. (Oxford) Cyril Hart . The Industrial History of Dean: with an introduction to its industrial archaeology. Frank Tyrer (Ed.). W. M. Stern . Britain Yesterday and Today: A. W. Coats (Ed.). The Classical Economists and Economic Policy. S. Pollard and J. Salt (Eds.) S. D. Chapman (Ed.). The History of Working Class Housing: a symposium Austin Mitchell . The Whigs in Otposition, 1815–1830 A. G. Kenwood and A. L. Lougheed . The Growth of the International Economy , 1820–1960: An Introductory Text . Harold Perkin . Dorothy Thompson . K. T. Rowland . The Great Britain. Monica Wilson and Leonard Thompson (Eds.) George Sayers Bain . The Growth of White-Collar Unionism. G. R. Searle . The Quest for National Efficiency. A Study in British Politics and Political Thought, Kenneth D. Brown . Robert Roberts . J. A. Allen . Studies in Innovation in the Steel and Chemical Industries Herbert Jankuhn . Ernst Klein . Ferdinand Tremel . Kölner Vorträge zur Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Elisabeth Johann . Greifswald-Stralsunder Jahrbuch, vol. 8, 1968–9. Georg Gruull . Werner Lippert . Friedrich -Wilhelm Henning . Friedrich -Wilhelm Henning . Werner Weidmann . Werner Hofmann . Gerd H. Hardach . Willy Fraunken . Hermann Schindler . Eduard Maurz . Heinz Hermanns . Klara van Eyll . Jacques Bernard . Navires et Gens de mer a Bordeaux Jean Meyer . Maurice Agulhon . Maurice Agulhon . Bertrand Gille . Rolande Trempea . Pierre Dupont -Gonin . G. Morlat and F. Bessiegre . Pierre Waline . Michel Vilain . Rural History, Modern and Contemporary     

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Books reviewed in this article: Friedrich Lütge . Deutsche Sozial-und Wirtschaftgeschichte. Ein Überblick. 3rd edn. Karl Dinklage , Konrad Erker , Helmut Prasch , Franz Koschier . Geschichte der Karntner Landwirtschaft und bäuerliche Volkskunde Kärntem. Erich V. Lehe . Die Märkte Hamburgs. Von den Anfangen bis in die Neuzeit (1911). Heinz Wiese and Johnn Bölts . Rinderhandel und Rinderhaltung im nordwesteuropaischen Küstengebiet vom 15. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert. Christian Heimpel . Die Entwicklung der Einnahmen und Ausgaben des Heiliggeistspitals zu Biberach an der Riβ von 1500 bis 1630. Eike Eberhard Unger . Die Fugger in Hall i. T. Reinhard Hildebrandt . Die “Georg Fuggerischen Erben”. Kaufmannische Tätigkeit und sotialer Status, 1555–1600. Fritz Blaich . Die Reichsmonopolgesetzgebung im zeitalter Karls V. Ihre ordnungspolitische Problernatik. Ulrich Troitzsch . Ansätze technologischn Denkens bei den Kameralisten des 17, und 18. Jahrhunderts. Heinrich Schnee . Die Hoflnanz undder moderne Staat. Geschichte und +stem der Hofaktoren an deutschen Fürstenhöfen im zekitalter des Absolutismus. Joachim Runge . Justus Mosers Gewerbetheorie und Gewerbepolitik im Fürstbistum Osnabrück in der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts. Gerhard Slawinger . Die Manufaktur in Kurbayern. Die Anfänge der groβgewerblichen Ent-wicklung in der Übergangsepoche vom Merkantilisrnus zum Liberalismus, 1740–1833. Nikolaus V. Preradovich . Die Führungsschichten in Oesterreich und Preussen (1804–1918). Mit einem Ausblick bis Zum Jahre 1945. 2nd edn. Christian Kurtz . Verbände der deutschenpapiererzeugenden Industrie, 1870 bis 1933. Karl W. Hardach . Die Bedeutung wirtschaftlicher Faktoren bei der Wiedereinführung der Eisen- und Getreide zölle in Deutschland, 1879. Hans Rosenberg . Grosse Depression und Bismarckzeit. Wirtschaftsablauf, Gesellschaft und Politik in Mitteleuropa. Hans Jaeger . Untemehmer in der deutschen Politik, 1890–1918. Roswitha Leckebusch . Entstehung und Wandlungen der Zielsetzungen, der Struktur und der Wirkungen uon Arbeitgeber-Verbänden. Jürgen Nötzold . Wirtschftspolitirche Alternativen der Entwicklung Ruβlands in der Aera Witte und Stolypin. Wolfram Fischer . WASAG. Die Geschichte eines Unternehmenr, 1891–1966. Hartmut Kaelble . Industrielle Interessenpolitik in der Wilhelminischen Gesellschaft. Centralverband Deutscher Industrieller, 1895–1914. Hans Hermann Hartwich . Arbeitsmarkt, Verbände und Staat, 1918–1933. Die öffentliche Bindung unternehmerischer Funktionen in der Weimarer Republik. Carl Böhret . Aktionen gegen die “kalte Sozialisierung”, 1926–1930. Ein Beitrag Zum Wirken ökonomischer Einfluβverbände in der Weimarer Republik. Valentin Chesi . Struktur und Funktionen der Handwerksorganisation in Deutschland seit 1933. Ein Beitrag zur Verbandstheorie. FRANCE Pierre Deyon . Amiens, capitale provinciale; éude sur la société urbaine au XVIIe siècle. Guy Thuillier . Asbects de l'économie niuernaise au XIXe siècle. Bertrand Gille . Histoire de la Maison Rothschild, vol. II (1848–1870). Alfred Sauvy . Histoire économique de la France entre les deux guerres (1931–1939). J. Ruwet , E. Hélin , F. Ladrier , L. Van Buyten . Marché des ceréales à Ruremonde, Luxembourg, Namur et Diest aux XVIIe et XVIIIe sièles. André J. Bourde . Agronomie et agronomes en France au XVIIIe siècle.     

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Social Europe. European Commission 1996: SOCIAL EUROPE: PROGRESS REPORT ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MEDIUM-SOCIAL ACTION PROGRAMME 1995-97 (Supplement 4/96).

SOCIAL EUROPE: WORK AND CHILDCARE -A GUIDE TO GOOD PRACTICE (Supplement 5/96). Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities.

Spatial planning. Healey, P., Khakee, A., Motte, A. and Needham, B. (eds) 1997: MAKING STRATEGIC SPATIAL PLANS: INNOVATION IN EUROPE. Basingstoke: Taylor and Francis, £14.95 paper.

Competing cities. Jensen-Butler, C., Shachar, A. and Weesep, J. (eds) 1997: EUROPEAN CITIES IN COMPETITION. Aldershot: Avebury, £55.00 cased.

Evaluating the City Challenge. Robinson, F. 1997: THE CITY CHALLENGE EXPERIENCE. Newcastle: Newcastle City Challenge West End Partnership Ltd, £15.00 paper.     

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“LOCAL ECONOMIC REGENERATION IN SCOTLAND” Hugh Morison, 1987: The Regeneration of Local Economies. Oxford: Clarendon Press, £19.50 HB.

“'MANAGING' URBAN CHANGE?” Department of the Environment, 1988: Managing Urban Change: A Report on the Management Training Needs of Urban Programme Project Managers. HMSO, £7.20

“WORKER CO-OPERATIVES” Mary Mellor, Janet Hannah and John Stirling, 1988: Worker Co-operatives in Theory and Practice. Open University Press, £25.00 cloth, £8.95 paper.

“COPING WITH RECESSION” Harris, C. C. 1987: Redundancy and Recession in South Wales. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, £29.50 hardback.     

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ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING AND LOCAL RESPONSE.

Stohr, W. (ed) 1990: Global Challenge and Local Response. London: Mansell, £45.00.

Trade Union Advisory Committee - Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, 1989: Problems and Opportunities of Restructuring Industrial Regions. Paris: OECD, no price stated.

TRADES UNIONS IN THE

1990S. Philpott, J. 1990: Trade Unions and the Economy: Into the 1990s-Papers and Proceedings of a seminar. Employment Institute, £4.50 paper.

EUROPEAN MONETARY UNION.

Davies, G., Currie, D., MacKinnon, N. and Brunskill, I. 1990: European Monetary Union - The Issues. London: Institute for Public Policy Research, Economic Study No 4, £10.00.

Campaign for Work, 1990: Should Britain Join the Exchange Rate Mechanism of the European Monetary System? London, £3.00.     

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Social policy. Alcock, P. 1996: SOCIAL POLICY IN BRITAIN. London: Macmillan, £12.95 paper.

Unions in local economies. Martin, R., Sunley, P. and Wills, J. 1996: UNION RETREAT AND THE REGIONS. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, £18.95 paper.

Business and the environment. Welford, R. and Starkey, R. (eds) 1996: THE EARTHSCAN READER IN BUSINESS AND THE ENVIRONMENT. London: Earthscan, £19.95 paper.

Innovation. Simmie, J. (ed) 1996: INNOVATION, NETWORKS AND LEARNING REGIONS?. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers and Regional Studies Association, £16.95, paper.