Building Sustainable Communities [electronic resource] : Spatial Policy and Labour Mobility in Post-War Britain
Raco, Mike.
Bristol, U.K. : Policy,
2007.
This book uses historical and contemporary materials to document the ways in which policy-makers, in different eras, have sought to use state powers and regulations to create better, more balanced, and sustainable communities and citizens.
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Cover; BUILDING SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES - Spatial policy and labour mobility in post-war Britain; Contents; List of tables, figures and boxes; Acknowledgements; ONE - Changing times, changing places; Introduction; Aims of the book; Building balanced communities: exploring the rationalities of spatial policy; The possibilities, practices, and limitations of the historical research method; Structure of the book; Conclusions: spatial policy as an active social policy; Part One - Conceptualising spatial policy; TWO - Conceptualising sustainable communities: place-making and labour market-building
Part Two - Post-war spatial policy, 1945-79THREE - Reconstruction, regional policy, and labour market-building: inter-regional labour transfer policies in the post-war period; FOUR - Building balanced labour markets in the post-war New Towns; FIVE - Economic modernisation and post-war emigration and immigration; Part Three - Post-war spatial policy, 1979-2006; SIX - The reconstruction of regional policy and the remaking of the competitive region; SEVEN - Sustainable community-building under New Labour
EIGHT - Managed migration, sustainable community-building, and international labour movementsNINE - Spatial policy, sustainable communities, and labour market-building: towards a new research agenda; References; Index
This book uses historical and contemporary materials to document the ways in which policy-makers, in different eras, have sought to use state powers and regulations to create better, more balanced, and sustainable communities and citizens.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-261) and index.
Description based on print version record.
Labor market.
Manpower policy.
Sociology, Urban.
Sustainable development.
Sociology, Urban
Labor market
Manpower policy
Sustainable development
Labor & Workers' Economics
Communities - Urban Groups
Business & Economics
Sociology & Social History
Social Sciences