Research Catalog

Title

Unemployment and social exclusion : landscapes of labour inequality / edited by Paul Lawless, Ron Martin and Sally Hardy.

Publication

London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley ; London : Regional Studies Association, 1998.

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Additional Authors

• Martin, Ron (Ron L.)
• Lawless, Paul.
• Hardy, Sally.
• Regional Studies Association (Seaford, England)

Description

280 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

Persistent high unemployment and growing labour market inequality have become entrenched features of many European countries. This edited collection of papers focuses on the regional and local dimensions of these problems across the European union as a whole and, more particularly, in the UK. In addressing the contemporary landscape of unemployment, social exclusion and public policy the contributors highlight several key themes, including how the processes of unemployment and social exclusion have an important local level of operation; the increasing gender dimension to changes in employment and to labour market inequalities; the failure of official definitions and counts of unemployment to provide effective guides to the true scale of joblessness; and the need for more local-focused policy interventions to help reduce the problems of unemployment, employment insecurity and low incomes that now characterise many of the advanced countries.

Series Statement

Regional policy and development series ; 13

Uniform Title

Regional policy and development series ; 13.

Subject

• Labor market > Great Britain > Regional disparities > Congresses
• Unemployment > Great Britain > Regional disparities > Congresses
• Labor market > European Union countries > Regional disparities > Congresses
• Unemployment > European Union countries > Regional disparities > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• bibliography.
• graph.
• map.
• bibliographie.
• carte géographique.
• graphique.
• bibliografía.
• gráfico.
• mapa.

Note

• "Many of the contributions are substantially revised versions of papers originally given at recent conferences held by the Regional Studies Association"--Pref.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-271) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Regional dimensions of Europe's unemployment crisis / Ron Martin -- Unemployment as exclusion / R. Ross MacKay -- Regional unemployment changes in Britain / Anne Green, Paul Gregg -- The changing geography of non-employment in Britain / Anne Green -- Registered and hidden enemployment in the UK coalfields / Christina Beatty, Stephen Fothergill -- The unemployed and the paid informal sector in Europe's cities and regions / Colin C. Williams, Jan windebank -- Gender as a form of social exclusion / Diane Perrons -- Female employment and changes in the sharee of women's earnings in total family income in Great Britain / Susan Harkness, Stephen Machin, Jane Waldfogel -- Poverty, inequality and exclusion in the contemporary city / Paul Lawless, Yvonne Smith -- Glasgow / Mike Danson, Gerry Mooney -- The policy challenge / Paul Lawless.

ISBN

1853023418 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^98113400^

OCLC

• 38115135
• SCSB-10858990

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library