The economy and geography of the United Kingdom have undergone major changes. This book explores the relationship between the two and examines the debates about modern geography in the making. Writing from a variety of viewpoints, the contributors examine the shift in the international division of labour, changes in the UK geography of manufacturing and services, and of work and labour organization. They also discuss the overall transition in the nature of uneven development and debate whether or not modern shifts mark a structural change. If so, how should it be explained? Is what we are facing a completely new, flexible, post-Fordist future, with an urban and regional geography to match, or are we at the point of upswing of the fifth Kondratiev long wave? The book addresses issues and debates which aim to be of interest to a number of social science disciplines, particularly geography, economics and sociology.
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tables, graphs, maps, references, index
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Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 157 mm
Dicke: 19 mm
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978-0-340-49393-9 (9780340493939)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Part 1 Setting the scene: the geography of international economic disorder. Part 2 Manufacturing employment change: the geography of the fifth Kondratieff; the de-industrialization of the city. Part 3 Services and employment change: employment change and the role of the producer service sector; producer services and the post-industrial space-economy; the geographies of service. Part 4 Labour and work re-organization: labour market changes and new forms of work in "old" industrial regions; a "modern" industry in a "mature" region - the remaking of management-labour relations; the unions - caught on the ebb tide. Part 5 Uneven development - a new phase?: industrial capitalism in transition - the contemporary re-organization of the British space-economy; spatial development processes - organized or disorganized?; uneven development - social change and spatial divisions of labour.
