BOOK COVER -- HALF-TTILE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- DEDICATION -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- TABLES -- CONTRIBUTORS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- DEINDUSTRIALISATION -- RESPONSES TO CONTRACTION -- REFERENCES -- 2 AFTER COAL -- THE POLITICAL CONTEXT -- THE ECONOMIC CONTEXT -- REGENERATION EFFORTS -- CASE STUDIES -- South Kirkby enterprise zone -- Post-redundancy experiences -- THE 'ENTERPRISE CULTURE' -- British Coal Enterprise -- CONCLUSION -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- 3 McJOBBING A REGION -- A WELSH ECONOMIC MIRACLE? -- A DIVIDED WALES? -- CASE STUDY 1 -- The steel industry -- The background -- The steel workforce in the 1990s -- New ways of working in the Welsh steel industry -- CASE STUDY 2 -- Inward investment-a false panacea? -- Japanese investment-an introduction -- Workforce composition -- Reshaping a work organisation -- Employee relations: new terms of representation -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 4 RESTRUCTURING THE TEXTILES AND CLOTHING INDUSTRIES -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 5 OPPORTUNITY OR CRISIS? -- INTRODUCTION -- IDENTIFYING THE DEFENCE INDUSTRY -- BACKGROUND: THE BRITISH DEFENCE INDUSTRY 1945 TO 1979 -- Nationalisation -- THE RESTRUCTURING OF THE DEFENCE INDUSTRY 1979-94 -- 1979-1985: The 'New Cold War': rearmament, and privatisation -- 1985-early 1990s: modifying the apparatus of government support and passing costs to foreigners -- The renewed arms export drive -- The cultural politics of defence -- 1993-94: Front line (and the market) first -- Restructuring continues -- The 'normalisation' of the defence industry -- The growing conflict between government and industry -- The social effects of the end of the military industrial complex -- The changing geography of military work -- THE DEFENCE INDUSTRIES AND THE CHANGING POLITICAL ECONOMY OF BRITAIN IN THE 1980s AND 1990s -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES.

6 ENGINEERING -- THE ENGINEERING INDUSTRY IN THE UK: PAST TRENDS, FUTURE PROSPECTS, AND KEY ISSUES FOR POLICY -- The diversity and complexity of the engineering industry -- Changes in engineering in the 1980s -- Prospects for the 1990s -- A regional perspective: the engineering industry in South East England -- COMPANY STRATEGIES AND LOCAL DEVELOPMENT: EVIDENCE FROM THE ENGINEERING INDUSTRY IN SOUTH EAST ENGLAND -- The importance and value of examining company strategies -- The business environment and business strategies -- Plant closure, rationalisation and reorganisation -- Internal organisational change and the division of labour -- Technological change -- Employment change and implications for training -- Inter-firm linkages -- The changing firm structure of the engineering industry -- The changing geography of the engineering industry -- High-tech by default? The role of the South East in the engineering spatial division of labour -- A LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY FOR A HEALTHY ENGINEERING INDUSTRY -- The need for an industrial strategy -- The regional dimension of an industrial strategy -- The South East Engineering Forum -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- 7 THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE MOTOR INDUSTRY IN THE UK -- RISE AND DECLINE -- Current position -- PRODUCTION SITES -- EMPLOYMENT CHANGE -- STRUCTURAL CHANGE -- THE ATTRACTIONS OF THE UK -- CAPACITY RESTRUCTURING -- UK EFFICIENCY: LONG TERM -- EFFICIENCY IN EUROPE -- IMPACT OF JAPAN -- JAPANESE COMPONENT MAKERS IN EUROPE -- THE STRUCTURE OF EUROPEAN COMPONENT MAKING -- COMPETITIVENESS -- THE UK IN THE 1990s -- COMPONENT SUPPLIERS IN THE UK -- PERFORMANCE AND PRACTICE: THE CHALLENGE -- THE POSITION OF THE UK -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 8 SYMBOLISM AND SUBSTANCE IN THE MODERNISATION OF A TRADITIONAL INDUSTRIAL ECONOMY -- INTRODUCTION -- ECONOMIC AND POLICY CONTEXT -- Background.

Policy framework -- ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING SINCE THE EARLY 1970S -- Manufacturing -- Overall change -- Shipbuilding and marine engineering -- The branch plant sector -- Inward investment from overseas -- The small firms sector -- Other sectors -- Coal mining -- The service sector -- LABOUR MARKET ADJUSTMENT TO ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING -- Employment change -- Labour market adjustment -- POTENTIAL FOR GROWTH IN A RESTRUCTURED WEARSIDE -- Overseas-owned sector -- The SME sector -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- 9 FROM WORKSHOP TO MEETING PLACE? -- CONTEXT: THE ANATOMY OF INDUSTRIAL DECLINE -- THE PROBLEM: CAUSES OF DECLINE -- THE RESPONSE: BIRMINGHAM'S ECONOMIC STRATEGY -- Partnership -- European Community assistance -- Business tourism -- Image -- ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERSISTENT PROBLEMS -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 10 ECONOMIC REGENERATION IN SHEFFIELD -- INTRODUCTION -- ECONOMIC CHANGE IN SHEFFIELD -- A decade of employment crises -- The rise and fall of an industrial district? -- THE RESPONSES TO ECONOMIC COLLAPSE -- Conflict and urban employment policies in the early 1980s -- Urban regeneration goals in the mid-1980s -- Reforging partnerships in the 1990s -- IMPACTS-DECLINE OR MODERNISATION? -- Strategies and regeneration -- The impacts of change -- Concentration of traditional industrial sectors and absence of growth sectors -- Poor development of small and medium enterprises and inadequate support networks and services -- nological R&D capability of international standard ... -- On the periphery of the European market and poor integration into high-speed transport networks -- Industrial dereliction and urban decay and blight -- Critical lack of information technology and advanced communications infrastructure -- The case for modernisation -- CONCLUSION-A MODERN CITY? -- REFERENCES -- 11 CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.