Production, Places and Environment

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ISBN: 9780582369405 | 0582369401
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Copyright: 9/27/1999

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Drawing upon 25 years of original research, Production, Places and Environment provides a unique combination of rich, varied and theoretically informed case studies, along with more general analyses of processes and changing theoretical and methodological perspectives in economic geography that are informed by original empirical research. Through a huge range of his own groundbreaking case material the author explores such essential factors as space, production, social and political concerns, and environmental issues, being careful to ground the more complex theory in the more general tendencies in economic geography and the social sciences.

List of Figures

List of Plates

List of Tables

xiii

Preface

Acknowledgements

xviii

Part 1 Setting the scene

(28)

Continuity and change in analysing geographies of economies

(26)

Introductory remarks

(1)

Changing approaches to economic geography

(18)

Changing substantive foci of interest in economic geography

(7)

Part 2 Re-thinking regional change

(80)

Introduction

(3)

Capital accumulation and regional problems: a study of northeast England, 1945 to 1980

(29)

Introduction

(2)

Recovery and recession: 1951 to 1962

(10)

Modernization: 1963 to 1970

(8)

Permanent depression: the 1970s onwards?

(7)

Conclusions: capital, the state and regional crises

(2)

Re-structuring region and state: the case of northeast England

(30)

Introduction

(3)

Regional changes in the national and global contexts

(2)

Rolling back the state, unravelling the `old' regional economy

(3)

Creating a `new' economy, creating new forms of state involvement

(18)

Conclusions: regional regeneration and polarization?

(4)

The learning economy, the learning firm and the learning region: a sympathetic critique of the limits to learning

(17)

Introduction

(1)

The learning economy: learning firms and learning regions

(7)

Old wine in new bottles: or another trip around the mulberry bush?

100

(5)

Conclusions and reflections on the limits to learning: learning by whom, for what purpose?

105

(4)

Part 3 Geographies of changing forms of production and work

109

(68)

Introduction

110

(4)

Labour market changes and new forms of work in old industrial regions: may be flexibility for some but not flexible accumulation

114

(29)

Introduction

114

(1)

Forms of labour market and of labour process change in the old industrial regions

115

(15)

From Fordism to flexible accumulation in the old industrial regions?

130

(7)

Some concluding comments: the strategies of labour and the trades unions, and the future for learning, living and working in the old industrial regions

137

(6)

New production concepts, new production geographies? Reflections on changes in the automobile industry

143

(19)

Introduction

143

(4)

Competition and cooperation between assembly companies

147

(2)

Cooperation between component suppliers and assembly companies

149

(2)

Competition and cooperation between component companies

151

(1)

Capital-labour relations

152

(3)

Searching for new regulatory regimes

155

(1)

Local and regional economic development implications: just-in-time and in one place?

156

(2)

Conclusions

158

(4)

The end of mass production and of the mass collective worker? Experimenting with production and employment

162

(15)

Introduction

162

(2)

Experimenting with new models of high volume production

164

(2)

Work, workers and HVP and its geographies

166

(4)

So is this the end of the mass collective worker?

170

(3)

Conclusions and reflections

173

(4)

Part 4 Territorial politics and policies

177

(90)

Introduction

178

(4)

Accumulation, spatial policies, and the production of regional labour reserves: a study of Washington New Town

182

(19)

Introduction

182

(1)

Capital accumulation, regional labour reserves, and state policies: some key concepts

182

(1)

Legitimating the development of labour reserves in Washington New Town: intra-regional uneven development as the route to social progress

183

(1)

Reducing the cost of variable capital and the reconstruction of a labour reserve in and around Washington New Town, 1964-1978

184

(11)

State expenditure, policy intentions and outcomes

195

(4)

Summary and conclusions

199

(2)

Region, class, and the politics of steel closures in the European Community

201

(26)

Introduction

201

(6)

Region, class, and the politics of steel closures: Lorraine and the Nord

207

(9)

Region, class, and the politics of steel closures: northeast England

216

(6)

Concluding comments

222

(5)

Institutional change, cultural transformation and economic regeneration: myths and realities from Europe's old industrial areas

227

(19)

Introduction

227

(2)

Productionist solutions, I: small and medium-sized manufacturing firms and the enterprise culture

229

(4)

Productionist solutions, II: big firms and the branch plant economy

233

(2)

Consumptionist solutions, I: from working-class production spaces to tourism based on the heritage of working-class production

235

(2)

Consumptionist solutions, II: from working-class production spaces to middle-class residential and consumption spaces

237

(2)

The welfare state solution: from industrial workers to clients of the welfare state

239

(1)

Conclusions

240

(6)

Making music work? Alternative regeneration strategies in a deindustrialized locality: the case of Derwentside

246

(21)

Introduction

246

(2)

From nineteenth century work camp to state-managed locality

248

(2)

Localized crisis: the closure of Consett steelworks and the collapse of the old order

250

(2)

Constructing an alternative development trajectory, I: the reindustrialization strategy

252

(2)

Constructing an alternative development trajectory, II: Making Music Work and cooperative development

254

(9)

Conclusions

263

(4)

Part 5 Production, environment and politics

267

(48)

Introduction

268

(4)

The environmental impacts of industrial production

272

(13)

Coal mining, employment and the environment: towards a new politics of production in Britain?

272

(3)

Opencast coal mining and its environmental and human impacts: implications for public policy in Britain

275

(3)

Challenges to modernization policies: from unemployment to environmental concern on Teesside

278

(7)

Towards sustainable industrial production: but in what sense sustainable?

285

(14)

Introduction

285

(2)

What is sustainable from the point of view of capital?

287

(3)

The social sustainability of the level and distribution of employment

290

(3)

The ecological sustainability of the level and composition of output

293

(4)

Conclusions

297

(2)

In search of employment creation via environmental valorization: exploring a possible eco-Keynesian future for Europe

299

(16)

Introduction

299

(3)

The current impasse: clues about possible futures from the paradoxes of high unemployment and the limits to contemporary policy approaches

302

(3)

Searching for an eco-Keynesian alternative: in pursuit of environmental valorization and a new distribution of work and employment

305

(4)

What would be an appropriate territorial level of state involvement in an eco-Keynesian mode of regulation in Europe?

309

(3)

Conclusions and implications

312

(3)

References

315

(25)

Index

340

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