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 -- Introduction -- Spatial selectivity and spatial policy: from Keynesianism to the new regionalism -- Globalisation and the shifting regulation of western societies -- Citizenship, selection, and labour markets -- Labour, citizenship, and the welfare state -- Labour market politics: skills, divisions of labour, and the definition of key workers -- Labour market-building, migration, and mobility -- Conclusions: spatial policy as an active social policy -- Part Two - Post-war spatial policy, 1945-79 -- THREE - Reconstruction, regional policy, and labour market-building: inter-regional labour transfer policies in the post-war period -- Introduction -- The inter-war period: labour mobility and economic crisis -- The war, reconstruction, and labour mobility -- Spatial policy and labour market-building: inter-regional KW migration strategies in the post-war period -- The politics of KW support -- The modernisation of regional policy and the KW programme, 1951-79 -- Conclusions -- FOUR - Building balanced labour markets in the post-war New Towns -- Building New and Expanding Towns: balancing space and place -- The post-war New and Expanding Towns programme -- Labour market-building in the New and Expanding Towns.

Place-building and the experiences of the New and Expanding Towns -- The rationality and effectiveness of mobility policies: Key Worker house-building and the Industrial Selection Scheme -- Conclusions -- FIVE - Economic modernisation and post-war emigration and immigration -- Introduction -- Economic modernisation and emigration policy in the post-war period -- State (in)capacities and emigration policy in the 1960s -- Immigration, labour market-building, and the politics of mobility -- The 1950s and new waves of immigration -- The 1960s and the shifting contours of policy -- Conclusions -- Part Three - Post-war spatial policy, 1979-2006 -- SIX - The reconstruction of regional policy and the remaking of the competitive region -- Introduction -- The changing rationalities of spatial policy -- The politics of the new regional policy -- The changing contours of spatial policy: the Major years, 1990-97 -- Spatial policy under New Labour -- Conclusions -- SEVEN - Sustainable community-building under New Labour -- Introduction -- The meta-discourse of sustainability and the emergence of the sustainable community -- New Labour, spatial planning, and the sustainable communities agenda -- Sustaining communities: the new politics of spatial development in England -- The return of the KW: from the Starter Homes Initiative to the Key Worker Living Programme -- The politics of KW selection -- KW housing and the wider politics of state selection -- Conclusions -- EIGHT - Managed migration, sustainable community-building, and international labour movements -- Introduction -- Globalisation, sustainable community-building, and managed migration -- Making migration work: the new migration policies -- Policy in practice: the Highly Skilled Migrant Programme -- The politics of managed migration -- Skilled foreign workers and the sustainability of the NHS.

Labour mobility, the EU, and new scales of regulation -- Conclusions -- NINE - Spatial policy, sustainable communities, and labour market-building: towards a new research agenda -- Introduction -- Spatial policy and imaginations of place and space -- The processes, practices, and politics of mobility -- Citizenship and subjectivity -- State capacities and modes of regulation -- New directions for spatial policy research -- References -- Index.