“Creating jobs — meeting needs”

Centre for Local Economic Strategies, 1988: Meeting Real Needs — Creating Real Jobs. Research Study Series No. 1, Alberton House, St. Mary's Parsonage, Manchester M3 2WJ.£10.00.     

Making benefits work

Finn, D. 1996: MAKING BENEFITS WORK: EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMMES AND JOB CREATION MEASURES. Manchester: Centre for Local Economic Strategies, £15.00 Pamphlet.     

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.     

“Local economic reviews: In need of a change in direction?”

Lancashire County Council, 1987: Lancashire 1987: An Economic Situation Report. Lancaster: Economic Intelligence Unit, County Planning Department, Lancashire County Council, no price stated.

Warrington Borough Council, 1987: Employment Issues Discussion Paper.

Warrington: Report of the Planning and Estates Officer, Warrington Borough Council, no price stated.

ECOTEC Research and Consulting Limited, 1987: The Black Country Urban Development Corporation: A Strategy for Development. Birmingham: ECOTEC Research and Consulting Limited, no price stated.

Townroe, P. M., 1987: Norwich: A Time of Opportunity. Norwich: University of East Anglia, Economics Research Centre, £20.     

Reviews

“REDUNDANCY AND RECESSION” Danson, M. (editor) 1986: Redundancy and Recession: Restructuring the Regions? Norwich: Geobooks £25.00.

“BUSINESS FINANCE” International Management Centre, Buckingham for the Local Government Training Board 1986: Business Finance for Economic Development Officers. LGTB/Coventry Open Tech Unit. £48.50.

“NEW FIRMS” Johnson, P. 1987: New Firms, An Economic Perspective, London: Allen and Unwin £20.00.     

European integration and unemployment

Symes, V. 1995: UNEMPLOYMENT IN EUROPE - PROBLEMS AND POLICIES. London and New York: Routledge, £40.00 cased, £12.99 paper.

Alogoskoufis et al 1995: UNEMPLOYMENT: CHOICES FOR EUROPE. Monitoring European Integration 5, London: Centre for Economic Policy Research, £10.00, paper.

Blanchard et al 1995: SPANISH UNEMPLOYMENT — IS THERE A SOLUTION? London: Centre for Economic Policy Research, £14.95, paper.

Coates, K. and Holland, S. 1995: FULL EMPLOYMENT FOR EUROPE — THE COMMISSION, THE COUNCIL AND THE DEBATE ON EMPLOYMENT IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT 1994-95. Nottingham: Spokesman for European Labour Forum, £9.99, paper.

Local Economy Policy Unit: CAN UNEMPLOYMENT BE CUT BY HALF BY 2000? A DISCUSSION STATEMENT PRESENTED BY THE BERLIN SENATE'S ADVISORY COUNCIL FOR LABOUR MARKET POLICY. London: Local Economic Policy Unit, £12.00, paper.     

“Regional questions”

Publications Reviewed:

Royal Town Planning Institute, 1986: Strategic Planning for Regional Potential. A discussion document.

Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, 1986: Regional Policy-A Fresh Approach.

Armstrong, H. and Taylor, J. 1987: Regional Policy: The Way Forward. The Employment Institute.

Northern Region Councils Association, 1986: The State of the Northern Region.

South East Economic Development Strategy (SEEDS), 1987: South-South Divide. An exposition of the SEEDS project.     

Short reviews

Simon Clarke, 1988: Keynesianism, Monetarism and the Crisis of the State. Edward Elgar, £35.00 hardback.

Ivan Turok, 1989: Development Planning and Local Economic Growth: A Study of Process and Policy in Bracknell New Town. Oxford: Pergamon Press, Progress in Planning, Vol 31, Part 2, £18.50 paper.

Turok, I. and Richardson, P., August 1989: Supporting the Start-Up and Growth of Small Firms: A Study in West Lothian. Strathclyde Papers on Planning No. 14, no price stated.

Centre for Local Economic Strategies, January 1989: Channel Tunnel: Vicious Circle. Pilot Study: The Impact of the Channel Tunnel on the North of England. Research Study Series No 2, £10.00.

Institute for Employment Research, 1989: Review of the Economy and Employment 1988/89. Two volumes. Coventry: Warwick University, no price stated.

Social Audit Network News (SANE) Ray Hudson, 1989: Wrecking a Region. London: Pion, £49.50 hardback.     

Towards a social economy, or is it a “third sector”?

Peter Welch and Malcolm Coles, 1994: Towards a Social Economy -Trading for a Social Purpose. London: Fabian Society, Fabian Pamphlet 564, £3.50 paper.

Roger Spear, Aude Leonetti and Alan Thomas, 1994: Third Sector Care: Prospects for Co-operatives and other Small Care Providers. Milton Keynes: Open University.

Perri 6 and Isabel Vidal (eds) 1994: Delivering Welfare: Repositioning Non-profit and Co-operative Action in Western European Welfare States. Barcelona: Centre d'Iniciatives de l'Economia Social.     

Greening the environment: National and local economic issues

Friends of the Earth (UK), 1989: The Environmental Charter for Local Government. London: Friends of the Earth, no price stated.

Association of Metropolitan Authorities, 1989: Action for the Future - Priorities for the Environment. London: AMA, £10.00.

Local Government Training Board, 1990: The Environmental Role of Local Government. Luton: LGTB, no price stated.

SEEDS (South East Economic Development Strategy), 1990: Green Plan — Interim Report. Stevenage: SEEDS, no price stated.

The Local Authority Associations, 1990: Environmental Practice in Local Government. London: Association of District Councils, £20.00 (£15.00 to local authorities).

Opschoor, J.B. and Vos, H.B. 1989: Economic Instruments for Environmental Protection. Paris: OECD, no price stated.     

Education and youth training

Mizen, P. 1995: THE STATE, YOUNG PEOPLE AND YOUTH TRAINING: IN AND AGAINST THE TRAINING STATE. London: Mansell, £40.00 cased, £16.99 paper.

Armstrong, D. M. 1996: EDUCATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE AND REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES. Belfast: Northern Ireland Economic Research Centre, Working Paper No 14.     

Reviews

“THE LONDON EMPLOYMENT PROBLEM” Buck, N., Gordon, I. and Young, K. with Ermisch, J. and Mills, L., 1986: The London Employment Problem. Oxford: Clarendon Press, £7.95.

“CLYDESIDE IN TRANSITION” Lever, W. and Moore, C., 1986: The City in Transition: Policies and Agencies for the Economic Regeneration of Clydeside. Oxford: Clarendon Press, £7.95.

“MANAGING THE LOCAL ECONOMY” Wilmers, Peter and Bourdillon, Bernard, Editors, 1985; Managing the Local Economy: Planning for Employment and Economic Development. Norwich: Geo Books, £15.00 paper.

“SUNBELT CITY?” Boddy, M., Lovering, J. and Bassett, K., 1986: Sunbelt City? A Study of Economic Change in Britain's M4 Growth Corridor. Oxford: Oxford University Press, £7.95 paperback.     

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

“REDUNDANT SPACE?” Green, Howard and Foley, Paul, 1986: Redundant Space, A Productive Asset Harper & Row, London, on behalf of the Small Business Research Trust, £14.95.

“SMALL FACTORIES” Perry, M., 1986: Small Factories and Economic Development. Aldershot: Gower, £22.50.

“COMMUNITY PERSPECTIVES” Willett, R. 1985: Village Ventures. Rural Communities in Action. Rural Voice/Bedford Square Press, £3.25

Alexander, T. 1986: Value for People, Adult Education and Popular Planning. Popular Planning Project, Clapham-Battersea Adult Education Institute, 116 Battersea Park Road, London, £2.50

Ashby, P. 1986: Trade Unions and the Community, Working for Jobs. Bedford Square Press/N.C.V.O.£2.50

“COMMUNITIES IN BUSINESS” Centre for Employment Initiatives/Community Initiatives Research Trust, 1986: Communities in Business. London: Centre for Employment Initiatives, £6.95 paper.

“LONDON TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY” London Strategic Policy Unit, 1987: Britain's Industrial Renaissance? The Development, Manufacture and Use of Information Technology. London: L.S.P.U.

“EUROPEAN EMPLOYMENT INITIATIVES” Martinos, H., 1986: Employment Creation in Local Labour Markets — Four Case Studies (ILE Notebooks No 5). Paris: OECD, price FF 60.00

“CHALLENGING THE MSC” Benn, C. and Fairley, J. Editors: 1986: Challenging the MSC on jobs, training and education. London Pluto Press, £5.95 Paperback.

“SMALL FIRMS” Scott, M., Lewis, J., Gibb, A., Faulkner, T.; Editors: 1986: Small Firms Growth and Development Gower, £19.50     

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

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.     

”Uneven development“

John Allen and Doreen Massey (eds), 1988: The Economy in Question. London: Sage Publications, £8.95 paper.

Doreen Massey and John Allen (eds), 1988: Uneven Re-Development: Cities and Regions in Transition. A Reader. London: Hodder and Stoughton, £7.50 paper.

Kevin Morgan and Andrew Sayer, 1988: Microcircuits of Capital: “Sunrise” Industry and Uneven Development Oxford: Polity Press. £35.00 cloth.     

Local democracy

Pratchett, L. and Wilson, D. (eds) 1996: LOCAL DEMOCRACY AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press Ltd, £12.99 paper.

King, D. and Stoker, G. (eds) 1996: RETHINKING LOCAL DEMOCRACY. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press Ltd, £40.00 cased £12.99 paper.

Kuper, R. 1996: CITIZENS JURIES: THE HERTFORDSHIRE EXPERIENCE. Hertford: University of Hertfordshire Business School, Politics Paper 3.

Coote, A. and Mattinson, D. 1997: TWELVE GOOD NEIGHBOURS: THE CITIZEN AS JUROR. London: Fabian Society, £5.00 paper.

Hodge, M., Leach, S. and Stoker, G. 1997: MORE THAN THE FLOWER SHOW: ELECTED MAYORS AND DEMOCRACY. London: Fabian Society, £10.00 paper.

Hambleton, R. and Bullock, S. 1996: REVITALISING LOCAL DEMOCRACY. THE LEADERSHIP OPTION. Report of the Association of District Councils and Local Government Management Board. London: Association of District Councils, £10.00 paper.

LGIU. 1996: AGENDA FOR CHANGE. London: LGIU.

INLOGOV

— University of Birmingham, 1997: MAKING LOCAL GOVERNANCE WORK. Findings from the Local Governance Research Programme of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Findings Paper 1 Changing Nature of Local Governance. Findings Paper 2 Citizenship and Participation. Findings Paper 3 Partnership and Networks. Findings Paper 4 Developing Community Leadership. Findings Paper 5 Managing Change. For copies contact John Raine, INLOGOV, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT.     

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.