Peter Sunley: 2 books
Putting Workfare in Place
Local Labour Markets and the New Deal
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
This book is the first comprehensive and authoritative analysis of the New Deal and examines how far the programme has succeeded in responding to the diversity of conditions in local labour markets across the UK.
Argues that profound differences in local labour market conditions have exerted...
Union Retreat and the Regions
The Shrinking Landscape of Organised Labour
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Since the beginning of the 1980s, British trade unions have experienced a dramatic retreat, marked by rapidly falling membership and declining industrial power. The authors examine the regional dimensions of this retreat of organised labour, paying particular attention to:
The resilience of the unions'...