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.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

Reviews

“THE RURAL ECONOMY” M. Healey and B. llbery (Eds), 1985: The Industrialization of the Countryside Norwich: Geo Books, £32.50.

P. Lowe, G. Cox, M. MacEwen, T. O'Riordan, M. Winter, 1986: Countryside Conflicts. The Politics of Farming, Forestry and Conservation.

Aldershot: Gower Publishing Company, £19.50 hardback, £8.95 paper.

E. Stern and J. Turbin, 1986: Youth Employment and Unemployment in Rural England. Report of a One Year Pilot Study in Four Rural Areas for the Development Commission Development Commission/Tavistock Institute of Human Relations.

“GLOBAL RESTRUCTURING, LOCAL RESPONSE?” Philip Cook (Ed), 1986: Global Restructuring, Local Response. London: Economic and Social Research Council £10.00.

“LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT” Cordle, P., 1985: Employment and Industrial Development-Local Authority Initiatives. CIPFA, £5.00. V. Hausner (Ed) 1986: Critical Issues in Urban Economic Development, Volume II. Oxford: Clarendon Press, £22.50

“CRISIS IN THE INDUSTRIAL HEARTLAND” Spencer, K., Taylor, A., Smith, B., Mawson, J., Flynn N. and Batley, R., 1986: Crisis in the Industrial Heartland: A Study of the West Midlands. Oxford University Press, £7.95.

“BLACK POLITICS AND URBAN CRISIS” Brian D. Jacobs, 1986: Black politics and urban crisis in Britain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press £25.00 Hardback.

“UNEMPLOYMENT AND LABOUR MARKET POLICIES” Hart, P. E. (Ed), 1986: Unemployment and Labour Market Policies Aldershot: Gower, 1950     

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.     

Short reviews

Greater Manchester Low Pay Unit, 1991: The Good Employer: A Guide to Employing People. Available from 23 New Mount Street, Manchester M4 4DE, £5.00 paper.

Healey, P. 1990: From Shipyard to Housing Estate - the Transformation of the Hebburn Riverside 1979-1989. Department of Town and Country Planning, University of Newcastle, £8.50 paper.

Cameron, G., Moore, B., Nicholls, D., Rhodes, J. and Tyler, P. (eds) 1990: Cambridge Regional Economic Review, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge.     

Reviews

POLICIES FOR TRAINING AND THE LONG-TERM UNEMPLOYED.

Corney, M. 1990: The Black Hole in Britain's Training System; Training for People in Employment: Robinson, P. 1989: Stagflation; Lessons from Other Places; and Meacher, M. 1990: Adopting the Employment Principle: A Green Paper. All published by the Campaign for Work. The price of the first is £4.00, the second £5.00 and the third £3.50.

US LESSONS IN EVALUATION.

Bingham, R. D., Hill, E. W. and White, S. B. (eds) 1990: Financing Economic Development: An Institutional Response. Newbury Park, California and London: Sage Publications, £33.25 cloth, £16.75 paper.

LESSONS FROM THE USA.

Hambleton, R. 1990: Urban Government in the 1990s: Lessons from the USA,

Occasional Paper No. 35, Bristol: School for Advanced Urban Studies. No price stated.

SKILLS TRAINING.

CBI, 1989: Managing the Skills Gap. London: CBI, £10.00 paper; Report of the Vocational Education and Training Task Force, 1989: Towards a Skills Revolution. London: CBI, £20.00 paper; Association of London Authorities, 1990: Training for London. London: ALA.     

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.     

Reviews

THE 150th ANNIVERSARY OF THE CO-OP MOVEMENT.

Birchall, J. 1994: Co-op, the People's Business: Manchester University Press, £25.00 cloth, £14.99 paper.

TRAINING FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.

Merseyside TEC and West London TEC, 1994: Economic Development Workbook: Briefings on Key Economic Development Topics, HMSO. Available from Nicholas Johnston, West London TEC, Sovereign Court, 15-21 Staines Rd, Hounslow, Middlesex, TW3 3HA. Price £45.00 + VAT (£7.88) to TECs, LECs and Government Regional Offices; £50.00 + VAT

(£8.75) to all other organisations.

THEORIES OF LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.

Bingham, R. and Meir, R. (eds) 1993: Theories of Local Economic Development Perspectives from Across the Disciplines, Sage, £20.50 paper.

RURAL ECONOMIES.

Lowe, P. and Murdoch, J. 1993: Rural Sustainable Development. Rural Development Commission. Strategy Review: Topic Paper 1.

North, D. and Smallbone, D. 1993: Small Business in Rural Areas. Rural Development Commission. Strategy Review: Topic Paper 2.

Rogers, A. 1993: English Rural Communities: An Assessment and Prospect for the 1990s. Rural Development Commission. Strategy Review: Topic Paper 3.

Tarling, R., Rhodes, N.J., Broom, G. 1993: The Economy and Rural England. Rural Development Commission. Strategy Review: Topic Paper 4.

Clout, H. 1993: European Experience of Rural Development. Rural Development Commission. Strategy Review: Topic Paper 5.

All available free of charge from the Rural Development Commission, 141 Castle Street, Salisbury, Wilts, SP1 3TP.     

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

”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

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).     

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

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

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.     

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.     

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     

Short reviews

FOUR SHORT REVIEWS ON THE THEME OF MARKETS AND JOBS

Leedale, M. 1988: Working Paper No. 108 — Intervention and the East London Clothing Industry. Oxford Polytechnic School of Planning, £4.00 plus 85p p. & p.

Lemaitre, J. (ed) 1988: Long Term Unemployment: Which Way Out? Brussels: Elise Publications, 10/Ecus/BF440 + BF50 postage.

Stewart A. 1968: Planning Homes and Jobs: The Sheffield Report Sheffield City Council, £10.00 including postage.

Association of County Councils, Association of District Councils, Association of Metropolitan Authorities. Stimulating Local Enterprise, the local authority role. £5.50 including postage.

Anglo German Foundation and Otto-Blume-lnstitut fur Sozialforschung und Gesellschafts politik, 1988, Local Labour Market Policies in Britain and Germany, London: Anglo-German Foundation for the Study of Industrial Society. 17 Bloomsbury Square. London WC1A 1LP, £4.50.

Watson, J. (ed), 1989: An Introduction to Political Economy & Planning: Four Interesting Essays, Anglia Higher Education College.

Report for the Commission of Bishop's Council of Diocese of Birmingham, 1988: Faith in the City of Birmingham. Exeter. Paternoster Press, £3.50.