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Autore |
Raco Mike |
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Titolo |
Building sustainable communities : Spatial policy and labour mobility in post-war Britain / / Raco, Mike (authors) |
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Bristol, U.K., : Policy, 2007 |
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1-4473-0158-7 |
1-281-16000-8 |
9786611160005 |
1-84742-176-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (278 p.) |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-261) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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communities, and labour market-building: towards a new research agenda; References; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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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