Politics and Method
Contributors: Meegan, Richard
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Hoboken
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780203974551
Subjects: Industrial location
Description: For more than a decade now a number of debates have beentaking place within industrial geography. The period has been onein which issues of the geography of industry of the spatial form ofindustrial decline and growth have often been at the forefront ofwider political debate. And in the discipline of geography therehave been long discussions in conferences, seminar-rooms, books, journals and special reports on regional policy and whatform it should take, and on the rapid-fire series of policies for theinner-city in which 'solution' after 'solution' has been flung in thedirection of the latest a.
Table of contents: title: Preliminaries; Contents; Notes on contributors; 1 Introduction the debate; 2 Editorial introduction Recession and restructuring in the North-West region, 1974-82; 3 Editorial introduction An approach to the analysis of redundancies in the UK (post-1976); 4 Editorial introduction Ideology and methods in industrial location research; 5 Editorial introduction Profits and job loss; 6 Editorial introduction A modern industry in a declining region; 7 Postscript doing research; Bibliography; Index.