The British Economy in Transition : From the Old to the New?.
Royce. Turner
Bok Engelsk 1995 · Electronic books.
| Omfang | 1 online resource (274 pages)
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| Utgave | 1st ed.
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| Opplysninger | 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.. - The British Economy in Transition: From the Old to the New? examines attempts at economic regeneration in areas that have experienced the decline in 'traditional' industry of recent years. The contributors also look at the impact of techno and managerial modernization strategies in industries that have survived, but have had to adapt rapidly to do so. Coverage includes: * Coal * Steel closure and economic regeneration * Defence conversion * Modernizing textiles * Modernizing motor vehicles * Trading ports in Merseyside * From manufacturing to sevice industries in the Midlands * the Engineering industry - prospects in the South East * Deindustrialization and regeneration in the North East Each industry is discussed by an expert in this area. The book will be a valuable guide to all those interested in change in British industry and business.
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