Reviews

YUGOSLAVIA IN TURMOIL.

Simmie, J. and Dekleva, J. 1991: Yugoslavia in Turmoil: after self-management?, London: Pinter Publishers, £35.00 cloth.

THE DEFENCE OF WELFARE.

Whitfield, D. 1992: The Welfare State. London: Pluto, £45.00 cloth, £19.95 paper.

GLOBAL FINANCE.

Budd, L. and Whimster, S. (eds) 1992: Global Finance and Urban Living, London: Routledge, £40.00 hardback, £13.99 paperback.

LABOUR MARKET RESEARCH.

Moore, B. and Townroe, P. 1990: Urban Labour markets - Reviews of Urban Research, Department of the Environment: HMSO, £11.25.     

Reviews

TRANSPORT AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY.

Hepworth, M. and Oucatel, K. 1991: Transport in the Information Age: Wheels and Wires. London: Belhaven Press, £39.00 cloth.

THE SOUTH EAST AND EUROPE.

South East Economic Development Strategy, 1991: Continental Shift: The South East and Europe's Single Market. Stevenage: SEEDS,

£35.00.

DEFENCE CONVERSION.

Fife Regional Council and Fife Enterprise, 1991: A Study of the Fife Defence Industry. Glenrothes: Fife Regional Council, no price stated.

URBAN POLICY IN THE UK AND THE USA IN THE

1990S. Hambleton R. 1991: Another Chance for Cities? Issues for Urban Policy in the 1990s. Papers in Planning Research No 126, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of Wales College at Cardiff, PO Box 906, Cardiff CF1 3Y, £6.00 paper.

Nyden, P.W. and Wiewel, W. (eds) 1991: Challenging Uneven Development: An Urban Agenda for the 1990s. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.

Clavel P. and Wiewel, W. (eds) 1991: Harold Washington and the Neighbourhoods: Progressive City Government in Chicago 1983-1987. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. $16.00 paper.

THE PARTNERSHIP DEBATE: CONTRACT ARRANGEMENTS BETWEEN THE PUBLIC AND VOLUNTARY SECTORS.

Gutch, R. 1992: Contracting Lessons from the US. London: NCVO

Publications, £5.00 voluntary organisations, £10.00 others.

THE FAST PROGRAMME.

Cooley, M. (ed) 1989: European Competitiveness in the 21st Century (A contribution to the “FAST”

proposal for an R&D programme on “Human work in advanced technological environments"). Commission of the European Communities. No price stated.     

Reviews

RESTRUCTURING.

Stewart, P., Garrahan, P. and Crowther, S. (eds) 1990: Restructuring for Economic Flexibility. Aldershot: Avebury/Gower, £29.50 cloth.

THE GREEN ECONOMY.

Jacobs, M. 1991: The Green Economy: Environment, Sustainable Development and the Politics of the Future. London: Pluto Press, £9.95 paper.     

Reviews

GRAND STRATEGY OR DRAINING LAKE WINDERMERE WITH A TEASPOON?

Chandler, J.A. and Lawless, P. 1985: Local Authorities and the Creation of Employment. Aldershot: Gower, £14.50 hardback only.

HOW IT'S DONE IN HAMMERSMITH.

Allan, M., Fenton, M. and Flockhart, A. 1985: Creating a local economic development network. A case study of Hammersmith and Fulham. Dundee Park Place Publishing/The Planning Exchange, £7.50 paperback.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR THE UNEMPLOYED?

Nabarro, R., Davies, R., Cobbold, C. and Galley, N., 1986: Local enterprise and the unemployed. London: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. £4.00 plus 60p postage.

THE CO-OP BANK LOOKS AT CO-OPS.

P. A. Management Consultants Ltd. and Co-operative Bank plc, 1985: Workers Co-operatives Past, Present and Future. Manchester: P. A. Management Consultants (Manchester), £20.00.

HOUSING LAND: ARE PLANNERS LOSING THEIR GRIP?

Rydin, Yvonne, 1986: Housing Land Policy. Aldershot: Gower, £15.00 cloth.

MONETARISTS LOOK AT LIVERPOOL.

Liverpool Research Group in Macroeconomics, 1986: Merseyside Economic Prospect Vol. 1, No. 1 February 1986. Liverpool: University of Liverpool, £6.00.

THE FORGOTTEN DEPRIVATION OF RURAL AREAS.

Association of District Councils, 1986: The Rural Economy At The Crossroads—A Review of Rural Needs and Problems in the '80s. ADC,

9 Buckingham Gate, London SW1E 6LE. £5.00.

THE LONDON FINANCIAL STRATEGY.

Greater London Council, 1986: London Financial Strategy London: Greater London Council, £3.50 (now available from London Strategic Policy Unit, 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SW1).     

Reviews

INDUSTRIAL POLICY: MARKETS VERSUS PLANS.

Employment Institute, 1991: Improving Britain's Industrial Performance. London: Employment Institute, £4.50 paper.

Beynon, H., Hudson, R. and Sadler, D. 1991: A Tale of Two Industries: The Contraction of Coal and Steel in the North East of England. Milton Keynes: Open University Press, £9.99 paper.

LOCAL SPACE.

Murray, R. 1991: Local Space: Europe and the New Regionalism. Manchester/Stevenage: CLES/SEEDS.

THE VITAL ECONOMY.

Michael Fass and Richard Scothorne 1990: The Vital Economy - Integrating Training and Enterprise. Fountainhall, Edinburgh: Abbeystrand Publishing £7.99 paper.

THE QUALITY DEBATE.

Hodge, M. 1991: Quality, Equality, Democracy: Improving Public Services. London: Fabian Pamphlet 549, £3.50 paper.     

Reviews

MAKING BIDS.

Ball, R.M. 1995: Local Authorities and Regional Policy in the UK: Attitudes, Representations and the Local Economy. London: Paul Chapman, £14.95 paper.

Mawson, J. et al 1995: The Single Regeneration Budget: The Stocktake. Birmingham: Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, the University of Birmingham, £45.00.

Knowledge based development. Ryser, J. 1994: The Future of European Capitals — Knowledge-Based Development Berlin-London-Paris. London: The Goethe Institute.

URBAN POLICY.

Blackman, T. 1994: Urban Policy in Practice. Routledge, £14.99 paper.

City 2020. 1995: Cities for the Future. A New Urban Policy.

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT.

Howells, J. 1994: The Dynamics of Research and Development-Opportunities for Growth in the Sooth East Harlow: SEEDS.

Northern

Ireland Economic Development Office. 1993: R & D Activity in Northern Ireland, Report 101. Belfast: NIEDO.

Pike, A. and Tomaney, J. 1994: R & D in the North East: An issue for public policy. Newcastle: CURDS, University of Newcastle.

PARTNERSHIP'S FLOATING MEANINGS.

Atkinson, A.B. (ed) 1993: Alternatives to Capitalism: The Economics of Partnership. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, £47.50 cased.

Bailey, N., Barker, A. and MacDonald, K. 1995: Partnership Agencies in British Urban Policy. London: UCL Press, £38.00 cased, £12.95 paper.

URBAN POLICY EVALUATION.

Hambleton, R. and Thomas, H. (eds) 1995: Urban Policy Evaluation: Challenge and Change. London: Paul Chapman, £17.95 paper.     

Reviews

SCOTLAND'S ECONOMY.

The Standing Commission on the Scottish Economy, 1989: Final Report Glasgow: Standing Commission. Available from the STUC

and Strathclyde Regional Council, £10.00.

Boyle, S., Burns, M., Danson, M., Foster, J., Harrison, D. and Woolfson, C. 1989: Scotland's Economy: Claiming the Future. London: Verso in association with the STUC, £2.95.

THE MANPOWER SERVICES COMMISSION.

Patrick Ainley and Mark Corney, 1990: Training for the Future: The Rise and Fall of the Manpower Services Commission. Cassell, £11.95 paper.

Alice Brown and John Fairley (eds), 1990: The Manpower Services Commission in Scotland. Edinburgh University Press, £30.00 cloth.

HMSO, 1989: Training in Britain (The Main Report) A study of Funding Activity and Attitudes. HMSO,

£10.00 paper.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND THATCHERISM.

Butcher, H., Law, I., Leach, R. and Milliard, M. 1990: Local Government and Thatcherism. London: Routledge, £9.99.

LOCAL ECONOMIC POLICY.

Mike Campbell (ed) 1990: Local Economic Policy. London: Cassell Educational Limited, £9.95 paper.     

Short reviews

Lawless, P. 1989: Britain's Inner Cities. London: Paul Chapman, £9.95 paper.

Leedale, M. and Beaumont, B. 1989: City Grants-Application Appraisal and Evaluation. Oxford Polytechnic School of Planning, Working Paper No. 117, £3.50 + 85p postage and packing.

Leo Klaassen, Leo van den Berg and Jan van der Meer (eds) 1989: The City: Engine behind Economic Recovery. Gower, £35.00 cloth.

Cross, D. and Whitehead, C. (eds), 1989: Development and Planning 1989. Newbury, Berks.: Policy Journals, £19.50 (plus £2.50 p).

Phil Blackburn and Richard Sharpe (eds), 1988: Britain's Industrial Renaissance? The Development Manufacture and Use of Information Technology. London: A Comedia Book, Published by Routledge.     

Reviews

PRIVATISM AND URBAN POLICY.

Barnekov, I, Boyle, R. and Rich, D. 1989:Privatism and Urban Policy in Britain and the United States.Oxford University Press.

THE SWEDISH EXPERIENCE.

Robinson, P. 1989: What Can Britain Learn from Sweden's Commitment to Full Employment?Campaign for Work, Research Report 1, March 1989, £4.00 inc p&p, paper.

NORTH-SOUTH DIVIDE.

Lewis. J. and Townsend, A. 1989: The North-South Divide. Regional Change in Britain in the 1980s. London: Paul Chapman Publishing Limited, £12.95.     

Reviews

DEPRIVATION IN THE OUTER CITY.

Barke, M. and Turnbull, G. 1992: Meadowell: The Biography of an “Estate with Problems”. Aldershot: Avebury, £32.00 cloth.

CHANGING BOUNDARIES OF RACE.

Jones, Trevor. 1993: Britain's Ethnic Minorities. PSI,

£15.

ENTERPRISE IN ARCADIA?

Curran, J. and Storey, D. (eds), 1993: Small Firms in Urban and Rural Locations, London and New York: Routledge, £40, hardback.

MAKING CONNECTIONS.

Turok, I. 1993: Loose connections? Foreign investment and local linkages in “Silicon Glen” Strathclyde Papers on Planning, 23. Centre for Planning, University of Strathclyde, 50 Richmond Street, Glasgow, G1 1XN. £4.00, paper.

COWLEY: THE END OF THE LINE?

Hayter, T. and Harvey, D. (eds) 1993: The Factory and the City: the Story of the Cowley Automobile Works in Oxford. London: Mansell, £40, hardback.

UPDATING SECTOR APPROACHES.

Geddes, M. and Benington, J. (eds) 1992: Restructuring the Local Economy. Harlow: Longman, £22.00, paper.

BORN AGAIN LOCAL GOVERNMENT?

Hodge, M. and Thompson, W. 1994: Beyond the Town Hall: Reinventing Local Government. Fabian Pamphlet, £3.90.     

Economics of the public sector

Likierman, A. 1988: Public Expenditure: Who Really Controls it and How? London: Penguin, £4.99.

Helm, D. (ed) 1989: The Economic Borders of the State. Oxford: Oxford University Press, £35.00 cloth, £15.00 paper.

Collard, D. (ed) 1989: Fiscal Policy: Essays in Honour of Cedric Sandford. Aldershot: Avebury, £35.00 cloth.

Hare, P. (ed) 1988: Surveys in Public Sector Economics. Oxford: Blackwell, £37.50 cloth.     

Reviews

”THE GEOGRAPHY OF ECONOMIC CHANGE“ Martin and Rowthorn (eds), 1986: The Geography of De-industrialisation. London: Macmillan, £30 cloth, £8.95 paper.

Champion, A. G. et al, 1987: Changing Places. London: Edward Arnold, £7.95 paper.

“WHAT FUTURE FOR THE LOCAL STATE?” Simon Duncan and Mark Goodwin, 1988: The Local State and Uneven Development. Cambridge: Polity Press, £8.95 paperback.

“THE 'SEEDS' APPROACH”

(1) All Change: A study of Bus Transportation Planning, Deregulation and Privatisation in seven towns; Consultant Dr P. A. Stanley; March 1987.

(2) After Chernobyl: A safe energy policy for the South East; Consultant Adrian Atkinson; May 1987.

(3) Troubled Waters: Water services in the South East Region; Consultants Dr J. Rees and Dr M. Synott; May 1987.

(4) Jobs Plan Workshop [W.P.2]; Oxford City Council; May 1987.

(5) Opportunities for energy conservation in Brighton and Harlow council housing stock: G. Matthews, S. Hodgkinson and M. Fergusson.

(6) Defence Electronics Conference [W.P.1]; Stevenage DC; November 1987.

(7) British Rail Services in the Southampton Area (W.P.3]; Consultant Helen Dawson; February 1988.

(8) Right Lines?: A study of British Rail Services in the South East; Consultant Helen Dawson; September 1988.

(9) South-South Divide; SEEDS 1987.

All published by SEEDS, The South East Economic Development Strategy.

“INDUSTRIAL RESTRUCTURING — PROCESSES AND POLITICS” Irene Hardill, 1987: The regional implications of the restructuring in the wool textile industry. Aldershot: Gower, £25.

Bo Strath, 1987: The politics of deindustrialisation. The contraction of the West European shipbuilding industry. London: Croom Helm.     

Reviews

“THE POLL TAX” Flannery, Kate, 1987: More than Just a Poll Tax. Centre for Local Economic Strategies, £5.00. MacGregor, Susanne, 1988: The Poll Tax and the Enterprise Culture. Manchester: Centre for Local Economic Strategies, £3.95.

“ECONOMIC THEORY AND THE LOCAL ECONOMY” Smith, D., 1987: The Rise and Fall of Monetarism: The Theory and Politics of an Economic Experiment. Penguin, £3.95.

Holland, S., 1987: The Market Economy: From Micro to Mesoeconomics and The Global Economy: From Meso to Macroeconomics, Weidenfeld, £12.95 each.

Green, F. and Sutcliffe, B., 1987: The Profit System: The Economics of Capitalism. Penguin, £5.95.

“THE SERVICES REVOLUTION?” Rajan, A., 1987: Services: The Second Industrial Revolution? London: Butterworths, £27.50.

“ENVIRONMENT AND ECONOMY IN EUROPE” Joyce, F. E. and Schneider, G. (editors), 1988: Environment and Economic Development in the Regions of the European Community. Aldershot: Avebury/Gower, £18.50 hb.

“POLITICS OF PRIVATISATION” Ascher, K., 1987: The Politics of Privatisation: Contracting Out Public Services. London: Macmillan Education Ltd. £30.00 cloth, £8.95 paper.

“RECRUITMENT AND TRAINING POLICY” Davies, T. and Mason, C., 1986: Shutting out the Inner City Worker. University of Bristol, School for Advanced Urban Studies, £4.30.

Chapman, P. G. and Tooze, M. J., 1987: The Youth Training Scheme in the United Kingdom. Avebury: Gower Publishing Company, £22.50.

“JOB GENERATION RESEARCH” Storey, D. J. and Johnson, S., 1987: Job Generation and Labour Market Change. London: Macmillan.     

Reviews

INNER CITIES.

MacGregor, S. and Pimlott, B. (eds) 1990: Tackling The Inner City. Oxford: Oxford University Press, £35.00 cloth.

RECYCLING.

Geoff Wright, 1990: The Need to Restructure the Economics of Recycling (SWAP

Report No 1). Leeds: Save Waste and Prosper, £1.95.

POPULISM.

Norman Pollack, 1990: The Humane Economy: Populism, Capitalism and Democracy. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, $40.00 cloth.

PRESSURES ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT AUTONOMY.

King, D. and Pierre, J. (eds) 1990: Challenges to Local Government. Sage Modern Politics Series Volume 28 sponsored by the European Consortium for Political Research. London: Sage, £30.00 cloth.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND THE MARKET.

Bennett, R.J. (ed) 1990: Decentralisation, Local Governments and Markets: Towards a Post-Welfare Agenda. Oxford: Clarendon Press, £40.00 cloth.

LABOUR MARKET POLICY.

Adnett, N. 1990: Labour Market Policy. Harlow: Longman, £9.95 paper.     

Reviews

REGIONAL POLITICS: GERMAN AND BRITISH.

Anderson, Jeffrey J. 1992: The Territorial Imperative: Pluralism, Corporatism and Economic Crisis. Cambridge University Press, £35 hardback.

COMMUNITIES ON THE PERIPHERY: THAMESMEAD AND AAMSTERDAM NORTH.

Coping with Social and Economic Change at Neighbourhood Level: Final Reports on the Netherlands and the UK of Research carried out for the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions.

GETTING A NEW START?

White, M. and Lakey, J. 1992: The Restart Effect — Does Active Labour Market Policy Reduce Unemployment? Policy Studies Institute.

JOB SEARCH AND MISMATCH IN CITIES.

Simpson, W. 1992: Urban Structure and the Labour Market: Worker Mobility, Commuting, and Underemployment in Cities. Oxford: Clarendon Press, £25 hardback.     

Reviews

PLACE PROMOTION.

Gold, J.R. and Ward, S.V. (eds) 1994: Place Promotion; The Use of Publicity and Marketing to Sell Towns and Regions. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons Ltd, £35, cased.

INWARD INVESTMENT.

Hill, S. and Munday, M. 1994: The Regional Distribution of Foreign Manufacturing Investment in the UK. London: Macmillan Press Ltd. £35, cased.

COMMUNITIES AND CARING.

Mayo, M. 1994: Communities and Caring: The Mixed Economy of Welfare. Macmillan (UK), and St Martin's Press (USA), £10.99, paper.

COMMUNITY PROFILING.

Hawtin, M., Hughes, G. and Percy-Smith, J. 1994: Community Profiling: Auditing Social Needs. Buckingham: Open University Press, £12.99, paper.

SUSTAINABILITY.

Hams, T., Jacobs, M., Levett, R., Lusser, H., Morphet, J. and Taylor, D. 1994: Greening Your Local Authority. Harlow: Longman, £25, paper.

URBAN POLICY.

1994: Urban Policy: The Challenge and the Opportunity. London: Association of Metropolitan Authorities in conjunction with the Association of County Councils and the Association of District Councils, £10 (£8 to the voluntary sector), paper.

POLICY ON INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY.

Ball, R. and Pratt, A.C. (eds) 1994: Industrial Property: Policy and economic development London: Routledge.     

Short reviews

Centre for Employment Research, 1990: Ethnic Minority Businesses and Employment in Greater Manchester. Manchester: Greater Manchester Economic Development Officers Ltd, no price stated.

The National Economic Development Council, 1990: Working for Pleasure -Tourism and Leisure Tomorrow. London: NEDO, £15.00 Report, £35.00 Conference Papers.

John Freeman, Frank Gaffikin and Mike Morrissey, 1989: The Irish Economies: A Common Future? Amalgamated Transport and General Workers Union, Belfast. No price given.

Morrissey, H. 1989: Women in Ireland: The Impact of 1992. The Amalgamated Transport and General Workers Union.

Gorman. G. 1989: School-Industry Links. London: Kogan Page.

Brewster, C. and Teague, P. 1989: European Community Social Policy-Its Impact on the UK. Institute of Personnel Management, £30.00 cloth.     

Reviews

RESTRUCTURING THE STEEL INDUSTRY.

Ray Hudson and David Sadler, 1989: The International Steel Industry: Restructuring, State Policies and Localities. London: Routledge, £30.00 cloth.

BEYOND THE INNER CITY.

Byrne, D. 1989: Beyond the Inner City. Open University Press, £9.95 paper, £27.50 cloth.

REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT.

Harris, R. I. D. 1989: The Growth and Structure of the UK Regional Economy 1963-85. Aldershot: Avebury, £35.00 cloth.     

In search of a moving target — skills surveys and skills audits

CAG Consultants, 1988: Economic Development for the People of Norwich. Norwich: City of Norwich, no price stated.

Cooper. H. 1989: The West Midlands Labour Market. London: HMSO, £12.50.

Galt, V. et al, 1988: Skills and Training Needs — Report of a Survey of Task Force Area Residents. Nottingham: DTI Task Force, no price stated.

Gait, V. et al, 1990: The Government's Nottingham Task Force Area Skills Audit — a Follow-up Study, 1990. Nottingham: DTI Task Force, no price stated.

Institute for Employment Research, 1989: People and Skills in Coventry. Coventry: City of Coventry, £14.95 paper.

London Research Centre, 1989: The Eating Skills Survey Report. Ealing: London Borough of Ealing, Planning and Economic Development, no price stated.

P-E Inbucon, 1989: Realising the Potential. Final Report. Rochdale: Rochdale Task Force, no price stated.

Policy Research Unit, 1989: The Wakefield Employment Skills Survey. Wakefield: Wakefield MDC, Economic Development Department, £25.00 for all three volumes.

Policy Research Unit, 1990: The Leeds Labour Force: People and their Skills. Leeds: PRU, Leeds Polytechnic, no price stated.

Policy Research Unit, 1990: Skills in the Community: a Study of Harehills and Belle Isle/Middleton. Leeds: PRU, Leeds Polytechnic, no price stated.

Tinsley Community, 1988: Skills and Unemployment Survey in Tinsley, no price stated, attached to Council minutes.

Training Agency, Wales, 1990/91: Valley Skills. Five volumes, first free, the remaining four add up to £16.50. Cardiff: Intelligence Unit, Department of Employment.     

Reviews

“Urban unemployment”

Hasluck, C., 1987: Urban Unemployment: Local labour markets and employment initiatives. London, Longman, £6.95 paper.

“Property and industrial development”

Fothergill, S., Monk, S. and Perry, M. 1387: Property and Industrial Development London: Hutchinson, £12.95 paper.

“High-tech”

Breheny, M. J. and McQuaid, R. W. 1987: The Development of High Technology Industries: An International Survey. London: Croom Helm, £35.00.

Monde, C. (ed), 1986: Science Parks -- Their Contribution to Economic Growth. Birmingham: UK Science Parks Association, £15.00 paper.

“American perspectives”

Bergman, Edward M. Editor 1986: Local Economies in Transition: Policy Realities and Development Potentials. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, $40.00 cloth, $16.95, paper.

“Marginal regions”

O'Cearbhaill, D. and Cawley, M. (editors) 1986: New approaches to the development of Marginal Regions, 8th International Seminar on Marginal Regions in association with University College Galway, 3 Vote: no price stated.

“Training without jobs”

Finn, Dan 1987: Training Without Jobs:New Deals and Broken Promises:From Raising the School Leaving Age to the Youth Training Scheme. London: Macmillan £6.95.

“The coopera tive workplace”

Rothschild, J. and Whitt, A. J. 1986: The Cooperative Workplace: potentials and dilemmas of organizational democracy and participation. USA: American Sociological Association Rose Monograph Series, Cambridge University Press. No price stated.

“Opposition to plant closures”

Maunders, A. 1986: A Process of Struggle. Aldershot: Gower £20.00 cloth.

“Property data”

Investment Property Databank, 1987: The IPD Annual Review 1987 London, £45.

“Urban economic development”

Hausner.V. A. (editor) 1987: Critical Issues in Urban Economic Development. Volume II. Oxford: Clarendon Press, £22.50 hardback.